Wayward Pines (TV Series) A Reckoning (2015) User Reviews

David Pilcher, you have failed this city!

[quincytheodore · 8/10 · 16 July 2015]

After the sighting of elusive Abbies from last episode, one would think they are the most immediate threat now. This is surprisingly not the case as numerous citizens of Wayward Pines don the cape of righteous vigilante and take matters into their own hands. The situation and small society crumble in rapid pace, which force many characters to resort to drastic measure.

A bit like morality issue in superhero theme, once again Ethan is placed in precarious position of obligation to do a reckoning. Though things escalate, he stands firm by his non-lethal decision. Unsatisfied by the suspension, a group of the first generation children try carry the task themselves. These children are looking more like cultists due to over exposure of propaganda, fittingly so as both the acting and material work in favor for this effect.

Despite the preventive measures, the current Wayward Pines is steadily reenacting the fate of group A. Leads characters try to patch things together with serendipitous finding by Theresa. While her literal digging bears some revelations, her subplot has been building up for many episodes the resulting finding feels a bit underwhelming.

The leading actors still conduct themselves well, but most of the better performances come from the supporting cast. Arlene (Siobhan Fallon) and Jason (Tom Stevens) have intense interactions for the more dramatic encounter this week. Hope Davis as Fisher is entirely believable as a hypnotizing zealot. She's adamantly persistent in almost religious fashion, and she's also giving Shannyn Sossamon a chance to shine towards the end for one satisfying scene.

With revelation and development occurring simultaneously, there's no sugarcoating the truth anymore as the continuity of Wayward Pines practically rests on the next finale episode.

A blast literally

[hardproductions · 10/10 · 25 September 2020]

The shotgun scene? Wao. Now thats what I call shocking. I thought the series cannot go any darker..Im glad it did. The actors were firing on all cilinders, and after checking who directed it Im not suprised. The man know his job for sure, no wonder he's done Predators.

THEY ARE IN

[bond-666 · 10/10 · 25 September 2020]

This episode had the best cinematography by far. Starting with the birds eye view, onto the cell massacre, till the very end. I wish the last episode were the same as this one. What a dissapointment that was.

Is Microsoft more Evovled than this?

[greenwhich · 19 July 2015]

This stupid show, is just so stupid.

I don't understand how the philosophy/psychology shown works? It may not work today, because it is often of a vastly different undebatable structuring.

What we have here is a great big giant prison, controlled and manipulated by a Dictator. Somehow nobody else ages, and so this tyrant lives on. Somehow they have the resources to mass produce all of their raw materials and food, that they would have eaten out, depleted, centuries ago.

Literally the opposite of evolution is being seen within this show. The mutants are probably the result of any stasis gone wrong, they are not transformers, aliens, or dinosaurs. No other animals have evolved or mutated in the millenia's, as in the deer. Logically if a species is altering any food chains by evolving so would any other nature. The mutants attack the fence as soon as the power goes down. However these mutants would have to be a creature that is already using fire, to achieve this, but no they are not. If they were intelligent enough to be smelling food on the other side, any fence would have shortcircut already, from mass attacks causing conductivity to circuit breaker. As soon as the power goes down the mutants, dumber then any other beast, would have learnt electricity kills, hunting away from a threat of death, are seen climbing immediately. Any static would have lasted, but we can argue they are drawn from previous breach, having the means of communication, no, they were doing this in previous episodes. If they are climbing the fence, they would have breached before, like how the secret agent had escaped. If by making a fence, wouldn't a fence be the last line of logical defense on the opposing side?

We have seen how the interdimesional time line fractures, at the start of this episode, it shows the Reckoning in prologue, before the ending of the previous episode.

Humanity's basic urge is to survive, explore, find, adapt and colonize. Although not in this show, because they haven't led another mutiny until now, despite of it being another batch number? So what is these humans purpose, an experiment, doing nothing but being caged and submitting to a dictator? The guards don't even get any other awarded status, corruption, Ssshh keep quite, why?

Why weren't the other records wiped, please just put a Darma over them, yes lost, that was the trap door.

Guns don't kill people, animals do, because they have evolved into Pilchard. I can only assume that any experimental insheeption must be the new technology for stasis, or something Bleh.....