Review of Pocket Savior

The Stand: Pocket Savior (2020)
Season 1, Episode 2
1/10
Worse than first ep
21 January 2021
I probably won't watch any more of this tripe. I've given it two episodes. I can't work out how they could have made this worse. Terrible pacing? Nope, they've done that. Bad casting? Nope, done that. Terrible story telling? Done that. It's hard to believe that something from such a good novel (okay, overlong and needed editing) could be so boring. I actually skipped bits of this episode just to drive it along a bit. We miss out all the great story of the pandemic but have twenty minutes devoted to two people walking through sewers in the dark. We have no apparent backstory for most of the important characters, but a very long time devoted to two people having a boring conversation. It's just so weird. Woopie Goldberg is terrible casting for Mother Abagail. She's the most iconic, enigmatic person in the story and close to 100 years old, so they cast someone whose ego is bigger than the story, who is just playing herself? So distracting. Nope, can't be bothered with this awful series any more.
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