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How can you fuck up so bad in only 8 episodes?


Another show where it's painfully obvious that whoever is writing the script is just making shit up as they go instead of coming up with a story that makes sense from start to finish BEFORE starting to film. I understand it might be too much to ask for a show where the story is told over the span of several seasons, but for a show that only lasts 8 epsiodes? Should be piss easy I mean...hire me...I have nothing to do with film making but I'll still come up with something that makes more sense...

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This is how Garland is. Sometimes smart, sometimes stupid. He was smart with the first half of 28 Days Later and then turned stupid. He was mostly smart with Ex Machina and Dredd (for what it is) and mostly stupid with Annihilation, but managed to hide this behind dreamy visuals. He attempts the same here - hiding his stupidity behind 60s sci-fi feel with actors on benzo and fails. He probably thinks now that that he is Kubrick or something. Maybe he should get back to reality by making Dredd 2.

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The first half is working pretty well, second half I feel like everyone is high, including the writers.

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