- October 27th, 2020, 2:29 pm#4941442
The first couple of episodes of S01 were great and interesting because it looked like there would be more depth coming. But there wasn’t.
Just no depth to the whole thing. Shallow and uninteresting enemy exposition that stays stale for 3 whole seasons. You know as much about the enemy in the beginning of season 1 as the end of season 3. Nothing changes. Which would be okay for me if there was depth to it, but there isn’t.
I think producers all sat in a room and said how can we make a Netflix show that combines 80’s nostalgia with Goonies and the Alien Xenomorph and that was it.
It’s like the only thing interesting about the show is the visual 80’s nostalgia and not actually what made the 80’s interesting in the first place.
-None of the believable grit, depth and intriguing mystery of X-Files
-None of the mind bending unexpected twists of something like Twilight Zone
-The cerebral terror of Alien replaced with simple overdone gore. No hiding the monster to evoke fear (Alien, Jaws) but just showing it all the time. The cgi isn’t even that gory.
-I laughed out loud about 4 times in 30 hours of watching.
It’s like the opposite of Black Mirror.
I loved the reverence to GB84 in the Afterlife trailer but when GB Afterlife gets into the second act and it’s just a bunch of young children running around singing and doing shallow Stranger Things stuff, I’m worried.
Just no depth to the whole thing. Shallow and uninteresting enemy exposition that stays stale for 3 whole seasons. You know as much about the enemy in the beginning of season 1 as the end of season 3. Nothing changes. Which would be okay for me if there was depth to it, but there isn’t.
I think producers all sat in a room and said how can we make a Netflix show that combines 80’s nostalgia with Goonies and the Alien Xenomorph and that was it.
It’s like the only thing interesting about the show is the visual 80’s nostalgia and not actually what made the 80’s interesting in the first place.
-None of the believable grit, depth and intriguing mystery of X-Files
-None of the mind bending unexpected twists of something like Twilight Zone
-The cerebral terror of Alien replaced with simple overdone gore. No hiding the monster to evoke fear (Alien, Jaws) but just showing it all the time. The cgi isn’t even that gory.
-I laughed out loud about 4 times in 30 hours of watching.
It’s like the opposite of Black Mirror.
I loved the reverence to GB84 in the Afterlife trailer but when GB Afterlife gets into the second act and it’s just a bunch of young children running around singing and doing shallow Stranger Things stuff, I’m worried.
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