Book wankers
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watched episode 1 now, they crammed a LOT of plot into an hour.
The book was a bit hit and miss from what I remember. I read the book by the way. Two years ago. I read books often. Book book book.
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Yeah, significant drop in quality from first to second episode. Weird that you have an opening episode that’s such a slow build and then the second episode is literally so madcap and all over the place they’re clearly having to skip chunks of the story to get it all in. Worried it’s going to be one of those where there’s tons of good ideas and so much potential but ultimately nobody has actually bothered to plot out a decent coherent story. Hope it gets back on track next week.
Quite surprised by what a bellend Atticus has been.
Better episode though.
Watched the first four now. Enjoying how pulpy it is and how every episode is riffing off a genre trope.
Can see how it can feel like a massive tonal shift from the first episode though and why not everyone would be into that. First one now feels like a parody of a Quality HBO Drama to me.
Fancy volunteering to fight in Korea. What a loon.
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Is anyone actually watching this? Was excited to check it out but doesn’t seem to have made a splash at all, and I don’t want to waste my time.
gave up after about 4 episodes.
I was really excited about the show but it’s a flippin’ mess. Wasn’t really invested in the characters but I really lost patience when it didn’t look like a coherent plot was ever going to emerge. Not remotely scary or disturbing either.
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Amazed that that “Negro Motorists guide” was actually real.
Seen the 1st two eps, it looks good eh
Torn on this, and have fallen a few episodes behind. Really like the first few episodes but there have been a few issues. One is that each episode is paced similarly so it all feels quite samey (eg ending with a big flashy spectacle) and that makes it a tiring show to watch. There’s a lot of individual elements I like but it’s less than the sum of its parts. Will probably see out the season.
I’ve just caught up with it! Some things I really like about it (not really spoilers but spoilered anyway):
The stand-alone nature of many of the episodes is so good. It took me a while to calibrate to this a bit, but I think this approach makes for a really kind of stylistically unpredictable show in a way that mostly works, and fits with the pulp horror short story reference points. I think the only misfire imo was episode 2, which almost turned me off the entire show completely after how tense and brilliant the first episode was. In this respect, I’m really glad to see a sort of “high-end TV drama” that genuinely gets weird with the storytelling and presentation, instead of sticking to the sort of “what you expect from a high-end TV drama” like a lot of other shows of this sort of calibre
Not seen it but gonna assume it’s what Oscar winning film Green Book is about?
Only done two episodes so far
EP 1 - woweee yes. YES!
EP 2 - 
Does it pick up again after that?
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Aye it is (just googled it)
It’s a mixed bag and the best mix in the bag was the first episode and the worst was possibly the second but some of it is fairly decent.
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It does, yeah. I’d say it’s by nature a bit of a mixed bag - but for the most part, it’s in a good way because of its willingness to experiment and play around with its reference points and genre elements. I really didn’t like the second episode either, but the others do a far better job of balancing the fantasy / horror elements with the more grounded themes so I’d recommend sticking with it! The most recent couple have all been golden imo
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Thank you and @anon29812515
Got a couple of days off this week so will get back into it I think
This is a tricky one.
It’s a sprawling narrative and it seems to snap in and out of focus. It won’t suit some viewers because of this.
It looks wonderful, the dialogue is always excellent and the performances are great. Also it’s tense, exciting and moving in places.
It also feels like it’s trying to scratch lots of itches and I think this is what leads to it feeling unfocused.
My gut feeling is that the showrunners are trying to make up for lost decades spent under the yoke of white decision makers and that they’re trying to cram in all manner of stories that they never had opportunity to previously. And that as a result it can feel kind of patchwork at times. I could be wrong about that, just how it feels to me.
I really like it. I think its an important show and by and large my opinion as a white middle aged man is pretty irrelevant. I’d just like more people to watch it.
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Can also see a lot of that.
Ep 10 has been sitting on my hdd for a few weeks and finally sat down to watch last night…Such an incoherent nonsensical mess. An absolute chasm between the pilot and the finale.