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1st ep was good. A perfect blend of Nick Frost, horror, Malcolm McDowell, and Simon Pegg is almost unrecognizable. I just luv Nick. He cracks me up. Malcolm too - their chemistry is wonderful.
8 eps - each about 30 mins long. I'm hooked and I'm binging.
This may redeem me from sinking further into my Hallowcovidween blues...
Ep 2 kept the pace. Nice spooky stories. Nick and Malcom are on point as is the new guy Elton. The overarching story is engaging.
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3 resolved that overarching arc. I think.
4 launched a new arc. It’s not as good but the Truth Seekers squad is assembled.
5 OMG Kelly Macdonald!
‘What is it with you and secret doors’
Malcolm got me laughing out loud for realz.
6 - nick’s last line ‘holy shit’
It’s all coming together now. Well played so far.
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7 - Ha! I thought that might be what’s up. I like the 6g spin. The nanobots are a bit silly but the ghost elements are good. Nick is solid.
The finale is set.
8 Well that was enjoyable. It redeemed my hallowcovidween, or at least took my mind off the fact that I’m not at BOO! @ BGC with pounding EDM and scantily clad peeps half my age.
I didn’t see the final twist and I’m not sure it made sense in the greater scheme of the story but it does set up the sequel and frankly anything with Nick, Simon, Malcolm & Kelly earns my attention. The horror story was okay at the start but the extra dimensional spin was only so so. It was the funny asides that kept me engaged.
No sword fights. DOOM recommended especially as a hallowcovidween binge. Oh wait.. you’re too late for that.
Trick or treat.
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Okay. I'm three eps in. It seems a bit scattered. It is all very low key. There are lots of mysteries hanging about with the leads. What's up with Frost's wife? What's the deal with is new partner and his new partner's sister. It does feed out the short mysteries well and then solves them without waiting for the end of the show. I thought the number station bit was well done for instance.
Malcolm McDowell does rule.
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All will be revealed, more or less. And all the short mysteries cumulate into the larger story arc, more or less. It's all connected.
There's also a massive plot hole that occurred to me in retrospect.
There's also a James Bond reference in the beginning of ep 5 or 6 - the backstory on Elton and his sis - which was eerily prescient.
Then there's that ending, the teaser for Season 2, which creates more mysteries as well as more plot holes if I think about it too hard (which I'm not going to do because this is not the series to think to hard about).
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We burned through the rest of the episodes because it was so fun. For each mystery solved, another mystery raises it's head.I guessed the back story of bro and sis early on. There are still a bunch of questions floating about. For instances, what is up with the witch? And what do we do with dog woman? And it just dawned on me who trained Twombey. Dammit.
It was all good fun. Still looking for DM's plot holes, but it seemed wrapped pretty tight. I await the second season.
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The dog woman was one of the strays. And that was the creepiest part of the series, which started out creepy but then got more extra dimensional fantasy.
My biggest question is why wasn't Nick's ghost-o-meter going off all the time?
I'm still not sure what Kelly and Simon's end game was throughout all of this. I guess that's Season 2 if it gets renewed. And yeah, I'm in too if that happens. It was mostly about the cast for me.
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Excellent question. And now I won't think about it as well.
I think Kelly and Simon are playing a game using the citizens of earth.
There were lots of great bits.
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Here is my question. Was Dr. Connelly young Dr. Toynbee's mentor for the rat in the maze experiment?
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I really don't want to think about it too hard. I just want Kelly to say stuff in that wonderful accent of hers. She could read the phonebook and I'd be entranced.
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(11-02-2020, 09:54 AM)Greg Wrote: Here is my question. Was Dr. Connelly young Dr. Toynbee's mentor for the rat in the maze experiment?
Yes.
(11-02-2020, 11:14 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I really don't want to think about it too hard. I just want Kelly to say stuff in that wonderful accent of hers. She could read the phonebook and I'd be entranced.
Yup. I’ve moved Drummer over just a bit so that both of them can fit on the pedestal.
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Thank you, Yeti for paying attention.
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Still not thinking about it too hard. Not thinking about anything too hard except for work.
And Kelly has been on that DM pedestal since Trainspotting.
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Sadly, Truth Seekers will not be picked up by Amazon Prime for a second season.
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