Why hide your phone in your sock when you have pants and a jacket full of pockets? Because it's a lot less suspicious to go for your shoe when your phone is ringing, of course... I chuckled when I noticed the show forcefully imposing sneakiness into a scene, like that.
So, now we have an allegedly proper villain, with a vague name attached to them. Let's see if something interesting comes out of that...
Had enough of this now, it’s a poor man’s Lost. Some of the acting is abysmal.
The mother & daughter are such bitches...they need to be slapped.
So much soap once again. So much time wasted on two boring and pathetic love triangles. So much lame background music during so many "dramatic" camera pans that do nothing but tell us that the director likes camera pans. We learn of an intriguing and as-yet unidentified "colonel," but the way that this thing is going, it'll be the middle of season two before she finally appears onscreen.
Boring. Poor storytelling. Poorer characters. Each episode easily can be condensed to a 5 minutes episode. How can Netflix announce even a 4th season?
Honestly wouldn't have minded if they'd made this show a short series instead and wrapped it up in the last episode. There are so many things going on with little to no explanation, even though Bahl and Fiona manage to make sense of some of it with science. It just seems like they're really stretching it all out.
Also not a fan of Mick and Jared sleeping together after the whole "you're my soulmate!" argument they briefly had. He could at least have talked to his wife about his feelings and communicated like an actual adult with her... But y'know, cheating's apparently just another modern day tv trope to make way for the popular, fan-favourite, we-kinda-know-they're-endgame couple to get together in the end while the other poor one just gets tossed aside... I really did like Jared, but this was too much.
The Holy Grail reminded me of Preacher, the comic. Those who've read it or watched the show would know what I'm talking about. This show is garbage compared to Preacher, though.
The daughter and mother or two peas in a pot. So disrespectful towards the dad.
The daughter is a Big B :man_facepalming_tone3:
If i was the dad id cut my loses, I’m not forcing anyone to want me around.
Only way I’m going to be ok with another man in my house if i was Ben is if he gets serious with Ms Doc. And start a life with her but we know thats not going to happen. He will never get back the wife he had sorry shes moved on.
Its so weird that i want Ben to move on but want Mick to get back with her ex. Guess I’m a hypocrite, i wonder if the best friend will accept it. This whole situation is fucked
The daughter and mother or two peas in a pot. So disrespectful towards the dad.
The daughter is a Big B :man_facepalming_tone3:
If i was the dad id cut my loses, I’m not forcing anyone to want me around.
Only way I’m going to be ok with another man in my house if i was Ben is if he gets serious with Ms Doc. And start a life with her but we know thats not going to happen. He will never get back the wife he had sorry shes moved on.
Its so weird that i want Ben to move on but want Mick to get back with her ex. Guess I’m a hypocrite, i wonder if the best friend will accept it. This whole situation is fucked
This show is so good! It keeps getting better. It feels like the child of X-Files.
I don't particularly like Ben, and in other comments I've made it clear he's annoying, but I do think he's a good dad so I'm not 100% on board with Grace's attitude, like not even letting him into their own house and being like "you have the kids tomorrow" and I feel super bad just writing this comment cause I'm always gonna side with the girlies, but I can see that Ben is a good dad and even if the callings are too much there's an objectively true element to his concerns, and that's the UDF and The Major, and there's tangible proof of that, so I think it's unfair Grace used that to kick him out, just say the truth, you no longer vibe with him and you want to be w Danny; also it was really unfair of her to say "you wanna act like these 5 years never happened" well... they didn't happen for him, like how you want him to act? and also Olive is a little weird too, I get missing Danny, and I get hanging out with him, but bringing him into your home when not even your dad can go in? it really feels like Olive doesn't care about her dad anymore :/ And like I said, I feel so odd defending a man.
I feel sad Michaela compared herself to an abuser, cause that isn't the case with her at all, like sorry I got kidnapped by aliens my bad, and Jared is kinda trash, he should've been honest with Lourdes, but also I think Lourdes is missing some self awareness, it's obvious Jared's love to her was conditioned to Michaela being gone, so now that she's back Lourdes should've done some thinking and step back, and not because she should sacrifice herself or because Jared and Michaela are like the epitome of love or some corny reason, but you gotta have that self awareness of knowing when you are not loved.
And oh wow those new callings look interesting, for a second I interpreted as visions of the future? like an old Cal is in the snow with the magazine sheet? but that wouldn't make sense I guess, so someone else is having that calling about Michaela, someone wants to find Michaela in the present? that seems interesting.
and I still don't trust Vance's right hand or whatever is his name.
the biggest sin of this episode is that they say someone is "at" red hook. no body says they are "at" a neighborhood here, you say you're in "red hook." it feels like the writers wanted the clout of having a show take place in NYC without actually knowing NYC.
Detective about to have 2 baby mommas and paying alimony + child support to one of them. lol
And Danny is desperate for Grace... a married mother of 2 with 50 pounds of drama stuffed in a 5 lb sack.
I wanna know what's so special about Cal!
Also, hiding your phone in your sock has to be one of the most conspicuous places. You telling me no one noticed her constantly bending down and reaching out to her ankle?
I don’t know about this show anymore. Slow. Some stupid stuff. Cheesy characters. And Grace is such a bitch.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2019-01-09T05:35:41Z— updated 2022-06-01T02:26:08Z
This show need to stop trying so hard. I don't know how it gets so many things wrong so often. This kid talking about his podcast like it matters is just off.
Finally having a group meeting is one of the smartest things they've done. I really don't think they needed a traitor element in the first place but we'll see.
Also in pro news the kids are apparently transferring houses. Between mom and dad. Which does respect his fatherhood status even if it might mean complications for the kids.
Honestly this episode is much smarter than the last episode. Even with the cheesy podcast stuff.
Like this "Holy Grail" thing where everyone is like "yeaaahhh right". As if no one has ever used the "holy grail" to mean something important before.
and then just like that an episode that started off rocky, was going smoothly then nosedives ruining a 6/10 episode to 3-4/10 territory. Lady Cop blames an amnesiac for beating his wife when the guy can't even remember his name. As if that makes any sense. At the family house young Olive invites her new-Daddy home to eat dinner to cheer up her mom because children understand complex adult dynamics either 100% or 0% depending on the episode and when real daddy summoned by his son via text shows up real-Daddy and new-Daddy get into a fight over the dumbest thing ever. You're ADULTS. act like it. Even if you wanted to yell who gets into a fist fight? No wonder Jordan Peterson thinks he's a genius he's learning everything about manhood not from historical cultural myth but television. But just everything about that scene is stupid.
"It doesn't look like a happy reunion" - what? You literally just walked into the house mr "Who is this man and why is he in my house that I'm exiled from"
"You are the whole reason this family is messed up" - WHAT??!? The dude disappeared in an airplane. He didn't mess up his family. Someone else messed up his family. He's literally innocent in all of this.
Olive sucks. Olive sucks worst than her mother and her mother SUUUUUCKS. Everyone on this show sucks to a little degree. But good grief.
And we have the second episode with a couple cheating to get back together (You 1x07-08)
This episode like so many of this series had the potential to be solid. Ending it by having white guy do the podcast is silly. Except plot twist.. good plot twist it's an insurance policy something the podcast host is too dumb to understand. Then finally having other people's callings show up is brilliant. Everything about this ending is compelling enough to make me want to see what happens next. If only the middle didn't just suck donkey balls so frequently.