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.
I agree, "prestige" television loves its time wasting lingering shots to draw out slow moving plots while the director gets to masturbate over being so artistic. It's the same as aura farming filler shots from dragon ball z
It really was a whole season of waiting for something to happen and then oh nothing ever did
And manousos being the only one not fucking the thing sucks because he's got libertarian brain worms if he's witnessed the collapse of every social contract and his response is to eat rotting dog food and, when forced to take things, leave fucking money for them
They should have just had more people "free" from it to begin with honestly, then you could have like, factions forming as people figure out different ways they want to deal with The Entity, maybe even some wanting to use violence to coerce others into joining (like a paramilitary to get around its nonviolence), or at least otherwise bring in some more interesting people because jesus fucking christ the people who "survived" are either boring nobodies or idiots (what the fuck is wrong with Laxmi btw, is she written the way she is to be a misogyny lightning rod or something?). And since there's only like, what, half a dozen left to be introduced? i hope one of them is fucking Atlas for all the carrying of this show they're gonna have to do