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if you like plot holes and non-sensical scripts that insult the intelligence while you are doom scrolling as they say, this is for you

another show that started off with so much promise, an intriguing plot, great editing and that settles now for paint-by-the-numbers tropes, dialogues, clichés. Theroux was great though in that first episode. Walton Goggins is starting to be too much too often

Very intelligent premise , but far too intelligent for 'Meurican television used to "mindless crap" as our protagonist once asserts. Indeed, since there is only one human protagonist (the 11 others are surprisingly dumb cartoonish versions of humans - something Gilligan never stooped down to do ) left, the only interesting aspect of these musings would have been a soliloquy and/or a psychological depiction of our protagonist train of thoughts, fears, etc...something only the WRITTEN word can deliver (as in the book that protagonist was said to be working on) And there is only so much "resting **** face" Seehorn can muster to try to represent what's going in her head. Indeed all the fillings needed to advance the meager plot (the action of the hive mind) are as interesting as watching the workings an Amazon warehouse or a Ford assembly plant. Or...maybe it is a satire: the satire is on all of TV viewers: We are the morons, we are the hive mind that is fed "mindless crap"like this show, so that its writer, in this case Gilligan, canuse the money to write a real book. A bit like the ever repeating boxing scene in Twin Peaks season 3? Or Last year in Marienbad?

American television is digging deep, trying to reach the roots of inanity and wrapping it with a glossy package of second-rate actors, tired tropes and one-liner dialogues that would make afternoon soaps blush. However, more concerning is the fact that the show runners try to hook you with a very well crafted first episode. It's a con to get you addicted and not let go until a very very deeply unsatisfying pay-off. Don't let them win. Don't watch, just read the wikipedia page.

Data 1001 is right. Season 1, great. Season 2: Filler after filler after filler because Disney knows it is the only good Star Wars they've come up with us and they are playing for time. Insult to the intelligence of the discerning audience.

it is so laughably bad. An action packed video game turned into a hodgepodge of neurotic "my 19 year old daughteris acting up" "my dad doesn't understand me" clichés. I swear AI could write this better than this **** 83 from "professional" critics. hahahaha, thanks for the laughs

Clichés? Simplistic / one-sided characters? Tropes galore? Voyeurism? Gratuitous s*x to give an edgy cachet? Economy-class exotism? Superficial and laughable depiction of another culture or religion (Oh South- East Asian Buddhism, so peaceful! Where are the Khmers when you need them)? That's the way to do it on your MTV (sorry Dire Straits), I mean HBO!

Watched a grand total of 9 minutes at 1.5x speed (as usual for Netflix fare). It is a very inferior and poor form of British humour where self-deprecation belies self-importance and self-satisfaction and impudence is mistaken for sagacity. Not everyone can be a Black Adder. But everyone can make a fool of him- or herself.

tried it after the hype it **** first episode was disappointing to say the least. The writing is very lazy for a HBO series, relying on boring tropes and mob clichés, as well as simplistic, ahem cartoonish (maybe that's the point?), character depictions. Farrell is unbearable, overacting, just like in his worst films. Was it written by AI?

HORRIBLE: the extremely badly written weekday afternoon soap opera around the dalliances, "romances" and "realtionships" BAD: the too hastily/easily settled/preposterous side-quests (Scanlan, Percy etc). The one in Hell was particularly unscarry, unimaginative and sloppy. Even the necessary knee-bending to the woke religion was not nearly as annoying. GOOD: the light-hearted humour, the Boss battle and one villain's arc Overall: a very marked drop in quality

ahem... you know this show called Alone on History Channel? Well, let's just use this comparison: Penelop is to Alone what Bud Light is to a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1982 or a Macallan 35 years.

The Power of Amazon rings hollow. Possibly the most ridiculous fantasy show of the century in terms of dialogues and acting

stopped 20 min into season 2. It's just badly written. The characters who were one, a mix of Jason Bourne's ninja instincts and Gandalf's wisdom, the second, a gray eminence à la Metternich or Richelieu, end up having the clichéd cranky and neurotic dialogue about past recriminations like if we were in a Billy Crystal **** the while crossing into Mordor, I mean **** the lazy tropes follow (captured, saved at the last minute by ally, setting up an ambush...blablabla)

Usual Netflix letdown. I was expecting a witty, tongue-in-cheek satire, and we have extremly lazy cultural asides (Olympus/Xanadu, Spartan cereals, Trojan terrorists...) that seemed to have been written by 13 year olds. Money grab by Goldblum playing himself more than ever. Lazy character depiction of Dionysus and Hera. And Eurydice's character is insufferable. It improves once we move to Hades but not much

bloated, slow, charmless, non-sensical, self-important. And that's not just Vince Vaughn. It's the whole damn first episode. Not a single smirk. Total waste

Apple TV has fallen to the levels of Netflix ....Good. Why would anybody pay to watch this trash? Is the world really filled with lobotomized subhumans like in the Matrix? PS:Watched 5 min on pirate website. You would have to PAY ME to watch more!

Netflix mediocrity x algo recommended nihilism + laziness of script and dialogues =extreme turd. Plebs ofthe world you have been served ypur pittance! Rejoice!

...and season 2 has gone to ****. Stupid cartoonish and implausible behaviors and second rate actors have replaced the nuanced and clever wirting of season 1 .

cringey weeb. embarassingly 25 -30 years behing its time.......................

intriguing plot, that falls flat after 2 episodes. Further undermined by terrible dialogues and idiotic melodramatic romantic sideshows. Acting is subpar, especially the young actors who really do not come across as credible scientists

Very very low hanging fruits, very tame for a last season. The first episode is good but it seems that all the rest is like a Netflix filler series.

Stereotypes, tropes, caricuatural characters and a hint of supernatural that is as pedestrian as it is pretentious (the Rose Aguineau character finding the murder 'cause she can see ghosts as any romantic old lady who is cool enough to skin a wolf in the open and roll her own joints is bound to). Jodie Foster is laughable. The whole thing is best appreciated as hate viewing with like-minded friends

'Murican pulp trash, one paragraph long characters (female McGyver longing for tru luv escapes libertarian macho sheriff/overlord) . woke mannichean clichés (man: brute, weak, dumb, selfish etc ; woman: sophisticated, strong, intelligent, transcends etc).

Lars von Trier's Melancholia on the exact same subject is a million times superior to this extremely 'Murican, tedious, facile and mediocre musing on the "imagine the world will end in a year" question.

I'm French and was intrigued, having given up on TWD in what it feels 30 years ago or so. However, the atrocious acting and dialogues, the pitiful lack of effort in decor and make up makes this show unwatchable after 5 minutes (where we see Daryl going in Les Baux de Provence and what looks like Sète). The plot had potential (A riff on The Last of Us) but alas it is misconstrued.

I'm French and was intrigued, having given up on TWD in what it feels 30 years ago or so. However, the atrocious acting and dialogues, the pitiful lack of effort in decor and make up makes this show unwatchable after 5 minutes (where we see Daryl going in Les Baux de Provence and what looks like Sète). The plot had potential (A riff on The Last of Us) but alas it is misconstrued.

a 5 min youtube self-help video stretched over so many hours with just better video production. Where you will learn that exercise, to be surrounded by nice people and living in a rich country will help you live longer. Ground-breaking stuff.

Embers not yet cold Resentful crones yearn Another truth to be told. Mendacity to be heard

It is, first, a public service, not just your average socio-economical documentary . But even better is its main character, the closest thing to a modern holy fool, living a fascinating paradoxical existence. It is really a case of life surpassing art, not just imitating it. And that justifies the existence of this program alone. My only issue with the program is the tedious and repetitive description of the scamming system as if we needed to go in all the nitty gritty details of this epic Quixotic quest to prove its reality.

we start this story by fake Jedi warriors ridiculesly mowing down a ship crew like chainsaw through butter and Asohka retrieving a dragonball, i mean a map, that was revealed to her after she captured a renegade Imperial. So, instead of showing us the capture and interrogation, maybe the psychological tension and the motives of our protagonists, we have to sit through 5 minutes devoid of any suspense. The rest is just like that. Pointless dialogues and exposition. REJOICE PLEBS! DISNEY IS HERE!

Ep1 &2: intriguing and very well paced. As good as anything in TV Soon it devolves into a non-sensical and redundant plot (they make up then hate each other again, da capo). Secondary characters are NPC, dialogues dumb. Very disappointing end.

As with so many other series, the first one or two episodes are well written and choreographed. Then it descends into an inflation of absurdity and imbecibility because writers needed to fill 10 episodes. Apart from Yeun and Wong, the other characters are caricatures, the dialogues sloppy, and the plot non-sensical after ep.2 with so many forced dead cat bounces.

Feels tired. Olyphant looks tired. All these tropes and stereotypes have been done to the death. However this is nothing compared to the utter stupidity of the plot and the motivations of the token bad guy Clement. It just reminds us that Peak TV was 10 years ago

Apple bribed "professional"critics into rating this show postitively and skimped on the writing and world building. Clichéd dystopian premise. Dumb dialogues. Cheap decor and effects. Bye Apple TV!

There are still some jokes that may be far too lazy, but 30 years later this show has mastered almost a very -let's be clichéd for a second- "zen" way of creating beauty with void: Indeed, it is when the action stops, where the animation is frozen, when the silence takes over that the pause reveal the very some utterly true but crooked moments of hilarity in our human condition. And it's balanced with the acerbic obliteration of the pop-music acts of this stupid generation or inane youtube videos. Thank you Mike Judge!

Punching down for a few laughs gets boring very fast. There is no wit, just playing dumb, and laugh at the expenses of people we think are inferior to us. The worst type of British humour. A bit like self-deprecation which is just a badly concealed form of narcissism.

Reading the inane dithyrambic adulations in the comment section for a show that has turned into a full-blown cartoon with ridiculous plot twists and thinking how a few month later the fanboys will turn against it is what justifies the existence overrated shows. 'member Lost? Game of Thrones? Star **** Wars? Where are they now!

Well, let's just say, this is "bollocks" and sagging boring ones at that. And, as an other reviewer observed, Keri Russel still playing the same "uncompromising, strong yet constipated woman" character.

Critics call this show "accessible", what a nice euphemism for "dumb enough for average 'Murican". Stoopid WW2 porn. Morbid fascination for ****. Netflix. Enough said.

It's starting to feel very repetitive, with characters that have become far too caricatural. The only one interesting is Tom, but he's been reduced to his worse falsetto voice. The jerky camera work is as nauseating as Roman's childish swearwords. And the corporate intrigue has been relegated to the most simplistic iterations that make auction sales at a wet market far more intriguing ... ... Plebs rejoice!

jumped the shark far too early on season 1, and now it's gone full of supernatural nonsense, dei ex machinae and/or clichés.

The emptiness of the whole thing is flabbergasting. 2 minutes of plot advancement (Protagonist arrive at destination, discover ally was lying and wanted to kill golden goose, protagonist escapes thanks to usual clichés, rescue golden goose through senseless killing, retreat) stretched over 50 minutes of useless blabber and violence. Worse than TWD.

Nice to see that the audience is maturing and getting weary of the litanies of rehashed tropes and clichés that Favreau, corporate marketing execs and algo nerds are trying to peddle. Andor is vastly superior to this crap. And don't get me started on Boba Fett and the other derivative rubbish. PS: I am watching on pirate site which makes me more legitimate to have a cameo in that first episode than Pirate #3 "Purple Squidhead from The Carribean Galaxy" who gets shot down by **** "Mando" Eastwood in the town square

Great premise at last on a more mature discussion on faith and religion in the face of total adversity. It could have been a great opportunity to compare how faith and religion were upended when Europe survived the Black Plague or, closer to us, cholera epidemics in the late 1800. But it is ultimately wasted on a oversimplistic, bestial resolution and complete "character assassination" of the main protagonist (the faith leader). Zik, zak, boom, boom...Action, action for little children. It just exemplify that this is a very very narrow-minded little show, well, that is meant for a similar audience

grosse merde baveuse qui se moque du monde....mais le monde est rempli de gogos ignares. Vincent Cassel, tête à claque devant l'éternel. Eva Green, montre son cul, comme d'hab. Ce sont les KPI, hein, marketing et tout le tralala d'algo à la con.

90% of the episode is redundant. I fast forwarded it until the unsurprising "resolution". Very lazy and facile. Again. It's worse than an average TWD episode. What an overrated show!

The worst: Horrendous acting by the female protagonist (acting like a flippant, spoiled, modern day teenager who seem never to have been dropped from another dimension). The laughable: Ham-fisted dialogues and simplistic musings on politics (martial order or fascism, freedom fighters of terrorists, Robespierre or Danton, communism or communal liviing etc etc). The boring: filler episodes and conveniently created -yet totally unrealistic- characters that only serve to further the plot. This show is inferior to the good seasons of TWD. Not to mention the far superior "Station Eleven". PS: Will you delete this review again?

Dumb depiction and resolution of a flimsy Robespierre-like scenario, bad acting, boring tropes, zero cinematography...feels like watching a flimsy Walkind Dead season 298 episode. That so many people rate this a 10 is truly concerning. American idiots.

Ted Lasso is to cinematic and visual arts what American Oreo cookies and UK Cadbury chocolate are to culinary culture...just like professional US sports are to sport in general. Disgustingly sweet with inferior and simplistic ingredients, mass produced on an industrial scale, propped by millions of $ in marketing to appeal to the lowest common denominator. aka ANGLOSAXON PLEBS DELIGHT! Now, where is my Valrhona? And let's rewarch Hannibal season 2.

The Office (US version, not the vastly superior UK original), Modern Family, and Abbott Elementary are basically the exact shame show just transposed in different settings. But, ****'t interrupt the sinking American middle class lulling itself to sleep with an idiotic smile on their face watching a "wholesome" show.