Ha ha. Yeah. A mandated evacuation and yet somehow characters could waltz around New York with ease. The streets weren't clogged/flooded/whatever. Anyone could go anywhere...
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 1:11 PM Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally agree with you about the rain, but the thing that kept my > disbelief unsuspended was that no one lost power during the storm. > > — Dave Sikula > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 16, 2023, at 5:08 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I thought it was fine. But only really fine. > > The trouble is that I don't think the structure works. Theoretically you > can watch the episodes in any order, with only the final episode being > necessarily watched last. > > I watched them in the order that Netflix served them up, and frankly I > don't think it worked. In TV today, flashbacks can mean some very > lazy writing, but I think I'd have preferred a linear narrative with > occasional flashbacks to this. Characters kept needing to be reintroduced > or would just be missing. In particular, the episode set six months later > really spoiled the final episode. I didn't get a sense of satisfaction that > you usually take from a heist movie. > > The whole hurricane element seemed a bit contrived too. Suddenly they can > break in utilising an unplannable phenomenon? What's more, the VFX budget > ran out at that point and it just looked like a wet Wednesday in New York > rather than storm of the century. The movie Hard Rain did the > heist-during-a-storm thing much better. > > I still watched it all the way through, but then I'll always watch Rufus > Sewell. And in general I liked the cast. > > But the whole thing could have been two episodes shorter and told in a > regular format. > > > Adam > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:17 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone else in on this one? The wife and I finished it tonight and mostly >> liked it, though it did strike me that, minus the "Choose Your Own >> Adventure" gimmickry, it seemed like, if watched in chronological order, it >> would be only a so-so caper/thriller. >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/22b2a551-6f36-450d-b164-257caaf9e104n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/22b2a551-6f36-450d-b164-257caaf9e104n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tvornottv/8cYbKDlrO_0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGC7Ng3GrKeeyPXALp0C3X3i7jkV8GfhK2AJ55fys1ZawQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGC7Ng3GrKeeyPXALp0C3X3i7jkV8GfhK2AJ55fys1ZawQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/A4A4369E-467F-46B0-B191-18005BEE99AF%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/A4A4369E-467F-46B0-B191-18005BEE99AF%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBKRYCOA1rB%3D4354OA5BfYs6hn5FLkfzPBqNg1DEcrr6A%40mail.gmail.com.
