Sadly, an underwhelming climax to a show with such an incredible start. My wife and I looked forward to Sunday every week and many times during the ladder half of the season we would catch ourselves dozing off midway through. While the direction and tone of the show is so captivating, it needs to be concise in its storytelling or else it feels very drawn out. The long, out of focus shots worked perfectly early on when we are desperate to understand what's going on. But it works against the show when it's just a character in their house slowly walking around. Sadly, the shows trajectory took a big hit when Jason Batemans character died and they could never get that excitement back. Then when we knew the "monster" of the show, there was little left to get invested in other than it being killed. And when that finally happens, it's portrayed in a way that is so anticlimactic that as a viewer, you're left thinking something is wrong. That they didn't actually kill the monster, but that they killed the real Claude. But that isn't the case. El Cuco never makes a stand in the end, he is shot, crushed by rocks, and gets his head smashed in. And the falling action which was the remaining characters getting their stories straight was written so convoluted that it's hard to follow. Rian Johnson recently said that a twist should always feel like a roller coaster and not a math equation. Well the dialogue during those scenes felt a lot more like the ladder. But I would say, the first 3-4 episodes are so incredible that it's worth watching. I wish Jason Bateman could've directed more of the final episodes.
Review of Must/Can't
