User Reviews

Episode 2: A much better episode with lots of good acting, smoother development, flashbacks and some unrealistic actions near the end that shows an introvert psychotic character and cowardly scared behavior; The move is there for the sake of explanatory drama instead of real technical feasibility.

The box has already been there, in that place, for a few hours and the position and coordinates would have been known already. The resulted, however, explains (in the series) the 19 months period.

In ep 1 we open with the mystery surrounding the murder of a girl we know nothing about. The entirety of the episode played upon that mystery and left us with the ending of the plane crashing. Episode 2 picks up right where ep 1 leaves off. Its fast, exhilarating and it set the tone that this episode would be more focussed on their time after the crash. It was looking to be a good ep.

I thought there'd be 3 narratives going on, before, after and after the rescue: I was wrong. The before from ep 1 was just a sort of get to know the characters and now we follow two narratives: the teenagers after the crash and the adult versions after the rescue and well this brings gripes. The teenage vibe carries over after the crash, a huge crash has happened, they're surrounded by death, some of which may be their first time seeing death. The girls somehow come out of it with minor cuts and that first night they seem to be over it already. There was more drama involving side comments on why this one didn't save that one's life. There was no sense of urgency.

Past that, in present day, the adult counterparts are trying to investigate these mysterious postcards that have been sent to them. The show tries to maintain a mystery and they do a good enough job for a 2nd episode but it's run parallel by the narrative of a struggling marriage between one of our protagonists and it was just cringey. I am sure there are other ways to the deterioration or progression of a relationship other than sex but as feared from ep 1. Ep 2 firmly establishes that sex is a theme of the show unnecessarily.

The issue of running 2 narratives with the same characters shows that there aren't real stakes as you know who will survive for the most part but then that may just be a way of the writers telling us that this isn't about life and death, and the end result. It's about the journey of what they had to go through - which I can't get on board with at the moment as Misty intentionally damages the planes' black box because she likes the praise she is getting.

One thing I do have to mention is the haunting soundtrack makes its return and I'm glad they aren't over using it. It really does enhance the atmosphere.

Overall, the teenagey vibe is taking over it seems and I'm not here for it but the mystery angle is thickening and that is what is keeping me here enduring the moments of cringe themes and writing.

P. S. Where's leader Jackie, in the present day?

P. P. S. I'm not too sure if they were going for a horror vibe with the kid doing the drawings but it was more cringe inducing than disturbing.

We're slowly learning more about what is going on there and I am fine with the pacing. The adult stuff is kind of boring so I don't expect or even really need a big twist there.