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In the 2nd episode, the main character is still a clueless dope. He doesn't question that there are no working computers in town, or that nobody has a cell phone. He finds the plan his buddy had to escape, and got killed for using, and doesn't hesitate to use the same plan and his friend the girl is killed for it. He keeps saying he's a highly trained gov't agent, yet acts like he's an untrained doofus. By this time I would have cornered somebody and threatened them with bodily harm until they told me what was going on. These kinds of shows are always the same. Keep you constantly hanging in the air, and never move the story along. Xfiles did it, Lost did it, The Prisoner did it. It's not going to work this time.
What a mess this show is. None of the characters stand out or are likable. By the end of the pilot, I didn't even care why the main character was trapped in the town. I guess there's an evil force behind everything, yet he's allowed to wander about at his leisure, make phone calls that he thinks get through but don't, steal a car where he finds the entire town is surrounded by an electric fence and he can't leave.
There's some kind of time warp going on, but who really cares. His wife knows he's missing, but shows no emotion about it. All the people in the town act like they're on Prozaq, they're so laid back. At least on Lost, some of the characters were interesting. All the people here are cardboard cutouts, moving in slow motion with no real purpose.
How they can make this show interesting is the real mystery. They gave away a lot in the pilot. It took two seasons of Lost before they gave away this much of the plot. I'll watch one more episode, and unless it gets a lot better, I'm outa here..
score 1/10
sinatrafangold 16 May 2015
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