I'm pretty disappointed with the show. I heard SO much hype about it over the past couple months so I was really excited to start watching it just before the last episode was available so my partner and I could watch it 1 episode per night just like we always do.

The first episode was awesome and we were so excited to get into another good show. Then the good times just dropped off a cliff. The 2nd episode was one of those.. okay, so they're trying to lay out how this all works.. very slowly... and then by the 3rd episode my partner was already complaining the show was boring and nothing was happening.

We finished it last night and were just gobstruck at how people think this show is even remotely good. That was possibly one of the most boring shows I've ever watched a whole season of. Not only that but the main character is so fucking dislikable it was aggravating to watch on top of being boring.

I like that Carol is a “dumbass”. I enjoy shows where the protagonists have no coherent worldview and are completely incompetent when it comes to achieving their goals because that’s almost everyone in real life as well.

Season 6 of the Sopranos was my favorite for similar reasons, another show that can be seen as boring for periods of time, twin peaks another example (Fuck you David Lynch I know you took pleasure in stretching out the Dougie storyline for as long as possible)

Has the original sci-fi potential of the show gone off a cliff? Definitely! If anyone has any recommendations for sci-fi shows that actually deliver though I’d be interested. I tried the expanse but the dialogue was insufferable and the quality nosedived after season 1.

Pluribus is one of the few recent shows thats not boring to me. Theres a sense of purpose and intent in every scene.

Eh I like it. It's very slow paced on purpose it seems, and I enjoy that.

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

It's more fun to talk about than watch.

Which is why I keep watching it, so I can talk about 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

I enjoyed the start of it but yeah, by the end it was going a bit to slow. Definitely didn't hook me in the way BB did.

I haven't seen BCS but I think it's time I finally burn through that one because I've heard it is great

My cousin recommended I watch the show in a conversation and I pretended not to have already watched it or even know about it because i couldn't be fucked talking about it

I really liked it. I can't quite say why, other than that the visual style and music combo is nice.