I feel like it’s fallen into a classic trap - the more we learn about the mystery the less interesting it’s become. Funnily enough I had a similar feeling watching the John Wick movies - the more they revealed about the shadowy international assassin organisation the less interesting it became. Some things are best left up to the imagination.
:10000-com: for me it’s telling that the show was originally intended to be a Twilight Zone-esque anthology show, with each season based around a “Strange Thing”, so to speak. The balance of exposition and mystery was great in the first season…beyond that, it felt to me like it was tripping over itself to keep the plot going forwards.
A victim of its own success under capitalism. I wonder what some of the other seasons they originally had sketched out.
I always thought that the series had Season 2 Flu, i.e. the first season was worked on for years and years and honed to perfection, and then it was suddenly wildly successful so they had to write up a second season in a year tops to capitalize on the new IP instead of letting the art be itself.
It was supposed to be an anthology series. Each season taking place at a different time and with a different cast, focusing on a different "Stephen King"-esque mystery/horror.
:10000-com: for me it’s telling that the show was originally intended to be a Twilight Zone-esque anthology show, with each season based around a “Strange Thing”, so to speak. The balance of exposition and mystery was great in the first season…beyond that, it felt to me like it was tripping over itself to keep the plot going forwards.
A victim of its own success under capitalism. I wonder what some of the other seasons they originally had sketched out.
I always thought that the series had Season 2 Flu, i.e. the first season was worked on for years and years and honed to perfection, and then it was suddenly wildly successful so they had to write up a second season in a year tops to capitalize on the new IP instead of letting the art be itself.
It was supposed to be an anthology series. Each season taking place at a different time and with a different cast, focusing on a different "Stephen King"-esque mystery/horror.