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This series is terrible trash. For a few episodes I thought it would at least turn out to make sense. The only way it could have done so was if Wayward Pines was a government experiment to test how much they could get away with. As we know, the answer is quite a lot. So having a test lab for Homeland Security to see if he can get people killing in the name of safety makes a kind of weird sense. A bit like an update remake of the old British TV series "The Prisoner" sponsored by the NSA. Pretending that we are now 2000 years in the future with everyone a cryogenic survivor of the end of civilisation just adds another level of weirdness. But about half way through the first cracks appear. We see some strange creatures on the outside. And then what we are told that this is all really true. But obviously it can't be. Because somehow an early 21st Century (no coincidence this as made by Fox) helicopter is in perfect condition. And in a world where nothing exists out of a small area somehow petrol is magically available. I watched the last episode after a gap just to see how they ended it. They obviously just wanted to get it over with. The rise of series with a long story arc has produced some great TV. Think Buffy or True Detective. But the danger is you're stuck with it. Any normal series would have been cancelled after a few programmes. Wayward Pines staggered on to the end. Let us hope it will be at least 2000 years before we see it's like again.
score 1/10
blakedw 25 July 2015
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