Pretty surprised how much I disliked this thing. Unbelievable plot and some painful acting work. Rated it a 5 because my wife liked it for some reason.
I don't really know what to make of this show or how to rate it. Two identical twin sisters who constantly swap their lives back and forth, all apparently because of some incident that triggered their bizarre behaviour. The story starts off OK, to such an extent that I thought it might actually be good, for the first 3-4 episodes but in the later episodes, where they actually start to explain (some!) of the story it starts to tail off drastically. The acting isn't particularly good, which doesn't help, but there are just too many things that just aren't explained. At first we are led to think that there's some reason for their behaviour and some sinister secret that the story is heading towards but as the story unfolds there are just too many threads that are revealed only to go nowhere. It then changed from being confusing because likely there's some plot and a reason to just plain confusing where the confusion, rather than the story (which largely gets ignored and dropped mid-stream), becomes the whole point of the show, such that, other than the confusion over who is who at any given time, there's no actual point to watching as it constantly goes nowhere. The show was definitely at least 2 episodes too long and identity switching just isn't a compelling enough story in its own right to make for good viewing, that coupled with the lame acting and poor writing (the incompetence of the Sheriff's Dept in the final episode is beyond belief, along with the totally eyebrow raising vanishing and re-appearance of one or both of the twins with zero thought given to how credible it is) means that I certainly won't be around for any season 2! I find it also quite surprising that for a mini-series, the ending seems to be a set up for a season 2, either that or ending was even more lame than I thought!
As usual, an intriguing concept with poor execution. Felt like it could be a Harlan Cobhen limited series, right down to the music, I was actually surprised that it isn't.
I think this would have been better if they’d gone darker with it. The plot had potential, but there were too many instances of lazy writing and the acting wasn’t great. Floss (the sheriff) was probably the best, although she did suffer from some gross incompetence in the final episodes. If they would have gone full on psychotic with Leni, that would have saved it for me.
Sounds crazy, but despite being on a farm, in the woods and in house fires, all of the characters amazingly had the cleanest clothes I’ve ever seen. That’s another thing that irked me throughout.
A suspenseful series with plenty of twists and turns. One of the features of the series is its ability to keep the audience guessing. However, one area where the series falls short is the portrayal of the over-the-top sheriff character. While her presence adds to the overall suspense of the series, her constant presence feels forced and unrealistic. Without this exaggerated character, the plot could have been better and more focused on the central mystery.
Interesting enough that I wanted to know what happened. Didn’t end like I expected for a limited series. It gets confusing with the twins - they show flashbacks of them at different ages and sometimes I had to rewind to figure out who was who.
what a terrible show. what an awful show.
Terribly written, unbelievable characters, awful acting, typical anti-white sentiment and coalburning, all the trash you'd expect from the mainstream subversives seeking only to humiliate the majority of their watchers.
[Netflix] A tedious thriller that wants to be so twisted that it needs a full episode in the middle of the season to explain itself. It also doesn't have the ability to define the twin sisters enough to be relatable, getting lost in flashbacks that try to justify the characters and their actions. There is such an insistent obsession with the plot twists that finally it ends up being ridiculous.
:heart:x5
So. Um. Yhea. This was not good. The story was not great. The acting left a lot to be desired. The actress playing the twins is no Tatjana Maslany (Orphan Black). I don't think that Monaghan even knew which character she was playing like 90% of the time. This alone made it really hard to follow which twin we were watching and who did what.
The worst thing is they set it up for a Season 2 which, quite frankly, I hope never comes.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Shout by Salomé T.BlockedParent2022-08-21T11:02:11Z
How did they get these actors I don't understand. It's bad. Career killer bad.