Here is the question. Could the writers not decide which ending they wanted to go with or do they really think that people would go along ”all shocked” with every single one of the twists ? Eventually you just wish the credits would come up.
The fact they keep calling it boat, like it’s a tiny dinghy.
And as if they’ve never seen titanic - when the water gushed in my second hand trauma hit.
And then suddenly the show skips several hours just like that, too.
The twist too, her believing Rufus had abandoned her and having so much rage about someone killing her mom, in the end it’s all the mother who did the abandoning.
—
All in all "Viktor" tries to deliver a good message, somewhere wrapped up in the story, and the show tries to deliver both that and the "but is that truly justified", but the last few episodes felt a bit anticlimactic, I'm not entirely buying the justifications.
Wasn't buying the "a few happy days in the snow" plot either, and wondered why the hell Imogene would, but ah, of course there was a bigger plot behind it.
I had wondered why the carts were rescued too.
I do like how they’re all one big team in the end. They could host a completely different show. Maybe they will, if season 2 becomes a thing.
And in the end, Imogene does put away the person who killed her mom, I suppose.
Well, the first half of the how was a lot more enjoyable than the latter, but I still did like it.
Nothing near as great as Only Murders though. Not even close.
Well, it started promisingly enough.
By the end, I was only watching just because I had gotten so far.
An almost literal example of the sunken cost fallacy. Get it?
Very soulless and pointless
I don’t see the mom as the big villain, I would be more pissed about her abandoning me than about her being an Eat the rich crusader, but other than manipulating the girlie to kill the detective’s partner I don’t see the damage.
I could see the potential of the friend group solving crimes but that’s a different premise and that leaves no room for the old man, btw what happened to him?
Review by Nitzan SchwarzVIP BlockedParentSpoilers2024-03-05T18:33:14Z
Honestly, the two-parter finale was a total disappointment. Maybe other people will appreciate the "twists and turns," but for me, most of them were just lackluster and lacked any emotions. If the goal was to tell us that everyone sucks, I guess you've succeeded, but you've also failed to deliver a satisfying mystery. The following are my in-depth thoughts about everything (haphazardly written), so spoilers ahead.
- Kira being alive and being The Big Bad wasn't something I had expected, but ultimately, this twist's potential was squandered.
The way things were was just... so empty. The whole mystery hinges on the death of this "good" woman, our desire to find out who killed her, and how her death relates to the current murders. And yet, she is a horrible person, an even worse mother, and a psychotic murderer to boot. It negated everything that had happened thus far. And yes, it could've been excellent, but nothing about her story or how it was written and acted sold her for me. In this case, Imogen "acting" her mother's memories was definitely a bad choice because it removed any emotion from her mother. And therefore, she just felt so dead as a character. Her Hilde persona had so much more depth than her actual personality.
But let's go back to her story... She chose to fake her death in front of her child and leave that child with the people she tried to take down, who, incidentally, wanted to kill her. Who the fuck does something like this if they love their child? And even knowing how this would devastate Imogen, she never tried to reach out. The reasons she gave? Shallow and do not hold up to scrutiny. But the absolute worst part is that she is not any better than any of the people she's trying to take down. She is simply a murderous piece of shit. She has no problem involving, killing, or making innocent people her patsies to achieve her goals, which makes her the same as the Colliers, who didn't mind poisoning their employees by using a banned substance. Her goal isn't actually to make anyone pay because we already know that under Victor Sams, she had so much proof of their wrongdoings. No, all she truly wanted was for them to die. And to do that, she will blackmail, murder, frame, and do whatever she wants. And to be honest, I get the vibe that the reason for that is not because they're bad people but because they crossed her.
Not that we get any explanation on how she became this big bad wolf. Why is the man who helped her fake her death, her minion, again?
And don't get me started about Victor Sams himself because... why create this persona instead of straight up leaving evidence that the Colliers murdered you?? Ugh, everything about how this storyline developed and evolved irks me. If I didn't dislike this finale so much, I might have wanted to go back to see if there had been any crumbs regarding the big reveal, but... meh.
- I don't think Imogen and Jules should be together. His chemistry with Teddy is far superior, in my opinion.
-WTF was that ending? Like, I get it. You wanted to shock us with one big final reveal. But, first, how come Kira's right-hand minion wasn't captured, and second, what the fuck was that "What does she want me to do?" switch into an unidentified body?... I get you want to tease a second season, but come on. Kira must have known of their trap for Anna's words to relate to that dead body. Ugh, whatever.