waiting for this show to improve. Several sites, and at least one reviewer on this site, have assured viewers that the show "takes off" around episode 10. Can't do it. I made it through five episodes and that was all I could take.
Visually, the show is great. I'm a big fan of "Blade Runner" and I thought that the show captured the same feeling of a dystopian universe(s) extremely well. But the script is...well, inadequate. If you're interested in character development and complexity of motivation, there are lots of shows and movies out there that do a better job than CJ.
And I didn't really find the plot all that confusing, though it helped to have some idea of what the show was about before I started watching.
The script, however, is like a "worst of" from series like "Lost." There are long, awkward pauses and all sorts of timing issues in the plot development. Ultimately, it's a soap opera where the writers' goal is to release JUST enough information to get you to tune in to the next episode. And what I find especially disconcerting is that it hardly seems like there are any subplots that actually get resolved in any single episode. Maybe I just need to keep on plowing through it until I reach episode 11.
Visually, the show is great. I'm a big fan of "Blade Runner" and I thought that the show captured the same feeling of a dystopian universe(s) extremely well. But the script is...well, inadequate. If you're interested in character development and complexity of motivation, there are lots of shows and movies out there that do a better job than CJ.
And I didn't really find the plot all that confusing, though it helped to have some idea of what the show was about before I started watching.
The script, however, is like a "worst of" from series like "Lost." There are long, awkward pauses and all sorts of timing issues in the plot development. Ultimately, it's a soap opera where the writers' goal is to release JUST enough information to get you to tune in to the next episode. And what I find especially disconcerting is that it hardly seems like there are any subplots that actually get resolved in any single episode. Maybe I just need to keep on plowing through it until I reach episode 11.