Caught the first ep On Demand. Seems like it wants to be another off-brand Lost rip with a Saw twist, with some iffy characters, writing, and acting… but for some reason I want to keep watching. Christopher McQuarrie is writing/producing, so maybe it won’t be total shit? Anyone else watching this?
I watched the first one and I am temporarily hooked. I like a mystery and TV pickings are slim right now anyhow.
Yeah, I caught this the other night and was underwhelmed.
I’ll keep watching, as prime time is a wasteland right now, but my expectations are pretty low. The Lost / Saw vibe is enough to raise my interest.
I too saw the Saw vibe in this show. At first I figured it was going to be another terrible NBC show. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised though.
Hmmm this is sitting on my DVR, will have to check it out.
yeah more than a little redundant, but worthy of my tv time at the moment, imo.
I’m actually eagerly awaiting the next episode. Although the main characters were a little generic, the mystery is actually very interesting. If the second episode is as good as the first, this might become my favorite new show.
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Yeah, one episode in it looks like:
-plucky heroine who just wants to get back to her daughter but she may be hiding something
-mysterious loner hero type who may be hiding something
-tough, resourceful soldier
-party girl
-highly strung guy who will probably be the first to snap
-slightly odd lady who knows all about sedative implants and appears to be hiding something
BUT I do want to see where this is going.
Dude, the Womans mother is totally in on the kidnappings somehow.
She definately might be one of “them”, but she’s being monitored too, so I dunno. Also, do you think there is a mole among the group? Normally I’d say yes, for sure, but there are already other people in this thing that isn’t part of their group, like the chinese people and the nightwatchman. Maybe a mole isn’t really necessary?
I’m watching but just get a bad vibe from this show for some reason. Also since McQuarrie is behind this I can only assume this is his version of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I mean he was originally going to make a movie of that correct?
I don’t think they could be more obvious about the psychologist chick having the hots for the Blonde.
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The people at the restaurant and the hotel guy are just hired help though, I don’t think they count as outsiders because it looks like they’re in the dark too. I’m pretty sure there is a mole, and it’s either Ruck or his car salesman buddy.
I don’t think it’s either of them – why would they sneak off by themselves to torture Hotel Guy, against the wishes of the rest of the gang? I’d bet Used Car Salesman doesn’t make it to the last episode alive.
Last episode was OK, still not great. LOLed at the Marine using his bare hands to find the microwave barrier. Why couldn’t he use a wet stick, or a cat or something?
I hope all these “monitoring” shots are consistent. I hope there are really cameras in Evil Mom’s house, and it’s not just a throwaway gimmick shot.
I’ll keep watching, but a lot of the acting is painful. I still can’t believe these people have been trapped for a couple of days and haven’t bothered to find out each other’s back stories.
Still watching. Yeah, the marine using his hands was kinda silly, but him doing it all alone with no one else watching rules him out from being a mole. The two idiots beating up the night watchman rules them out. Woman with daughter is ruled out, we’ve seen her story. That leaves mercenary Joe, psycho Moria, or Barbie Doll. I think the first two are too obvious, so I’m going with Barbie if there is a mole.
I liked how the nigh watchman was back looking all dapper again when they got back to town. It was also pretty cool how the camera was just replaced quick-like when the woman shot it. It looks like “they” have dealt with that reaction before.
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Because it’s an “escape attempt” just for show? To make the other guy (and the rest of the group, and the audience) trust in him as just another victim, so that he can pull a twist later. I dunno, Ruck seems fishy to me.
I’m leaning towards “no mole” at this point. At this point, the only two people that can be ruled out are Single Mom and Barbie.*
I gotta say, though, there better not be some wimpy ransom bullshit behind all of this. If you are going to abduct, drug, and sequester seven strangers in a remote ghost town, implant tranqs in them, and surround everything with hi-tech military weapons, there better be some pretty serious stakes here, and so far the show has completely failed to address that.
*I honestly have no idea what most of these characters’ names are. I’m at a point where I REALLY need some more background on these folks if I want to care about any of them. Cuz right now, I don’t care what happens to them at all.
I kinda hope its something batshit insane. Something to do with ALIENS.
That would be crazy, but I’m hoping for something even more off the wall than aliens or the govment. I wonder if there might be a kind of Identity thing going on?
Well the van basically teleported back to the town, so there’s either some hardcore sci-fi shit going on, or some hardcore alien shit going on, or some hardcore mind fucking going on. Either way that’s more interesting than a simple kidnapping.