Review of Wayward Pines

I've never seen anything quite like Wayward Pines, because it changed every week. Plot twists in the series didn't just change your perceptions about the show; they changed its nature.

The first week the show seemed a lot like Twin Peaks with elements of Lost (from which the first shot was cribbed), although to me it was closest in tone to the cut scenes from the video game series Silent Hill. Everyone was off. Everything was weird. Characters are there, and then they're not there and never were. It's all wonderfully creepy and odd.

By the second episode it felt more like the series was going in the direction of The Prisoner. But the series took so many left turns that it drove through conspiracy, sci-fi, action, and more, along the way continually killing off characters you were convinced were there for the duration.

Normally I am pretty good at guessing where things are going, but this mini-series kept me off balance for its entire run. I can't say I loved the ending, which was emotionally a bit unsatisfying, but I thought it was a clever way to end it all the same.

Overall, it was really remarkable.