While I liked the show overall, the season 1 plot should've been covered in like 4 episodes max.
It's not the 'slow burn' that Breaking bad and Better Call Saul had. They had a lot more going and had far more interesting characters. I will defend Season 1 of BCS to hell because I like the characters in the show and it's fun seeing them doing relatively normal stuff.
In pluribus, Carol is a dumbass. The hivemind is not interesting at all and the rest of the survivors are props. Manousos is the only sane character in the show and I can get behind my man but he had way fewer scenes.
The plot just goes around in circles until the season just ends with nothing happening. The next season is also like 2 years away at least so the hype will go down because unlike Severance, this is dogshit.
I don't know how vince will make 4 seasons of this slop. Unless they somehow multiply the survivor count by like a thousand it will remain mostly boring.
On the positive note, the actors are amazing. Rhea Seehorn is great and I love how different Carol is from Kim Wexler that I don't even notice it.
Idk I really like it so to each their own I guess. I really like sci fi and it's a totally unique concept
S2 I'm guessing they get zosia to break free. It'll be a much more compelling story when people have agency to go both ways.
I'm not super invested in the story but will def pick it back up when it comes out.
Relatedly what the heck happened to TV? Like we used to be able to get a season a year and now we have to wait 2-3
kinda want carol and manousos to disconnect a bunch of people and they're all like "nah fuck this i wanna go back in"
if i had to guess, complications associated with all of these things happened in the last 5 years
plus the weird contract encumbrances associated with intellectual property agreements around all of these ownership shakeups:
scripted, episodic TV coming out on a yearly tempo seems to have been the primary casualty of late. the genre of media production that doesn't seem to have suffered at all, and has mostly exploded in content, is fucking reality dog shit and true crime slop, which are both dirt cheap for production and negligible risk compared to a multi-season show with complex set pieces, episodic story arcs, and elaborate/exotic settings.
the gems have been few and far between because i think talented showrunners have figure out where they can shop their ideas without getting pushed by the suits into pandering to an algorithm.
The new Fallout show is aiming for one season per year, and specifically referenced how shit it is that people have to wait so long for new content lately.
People will have to break free to make the show more interesting. Zosia breaking free could be really interesting, because then the character that Carol somehow had an intimate bond with will not even remember her, not even able to speak English.
Why wouldnt she remember being part of the entity? She,d be herself again, but even while part of the entity she has memories from before.
That's a good point, I guess we don't know how memories are handled. Like, if someone comes out will they have every memory still, even mundane stuff like the location of every bag of doritos. I was just under the assumption they would come out with amnesia, but that's maybe not the case. I guess we will see