I loved the initial idea of this. A village caught in a supernatural loop, people trapped and enable to escape because they keep arriving back where they left. Into that add fantastically creepy ghouls, with great CGI - smiling as they eviscerate you. I really thought it was going to be something original and scary.
Unfortunately, that didn't optimism didn't last long. Season 1 started to go downhill, season 2 is just terrible. In-between the tension and atmospheric scenes, we have the same old awful nonsensical filling. Practically all the characters are unlikeable social misfits with no idea how to act like functional humans. They behave in ways which defy logic, common sense and any type of rational behaviour. Episode 3 finally did it for me. I just can't stand it, and had to write this to vent my steam!
A bus arrives, and they all stand out in the rain for some reason instead of waiting in the bus - some of the residents arrive and as they try to calm the strangers and explain the situation, the "leader" turns up with a shotgun and shoots the tyre to they can't drive off. A house collapses on three people, one of whom tells them they can't carefully clear the wreckage, in case it collapses further. So instead - they leave them overnight trapped and in agony - without any protection from the flesh eating ghouls, to take their chances. WHAT?! Who wouldn't take the risk faced with those options. Sure enough, one gets eaten alive, one dies in agony of his injuries.
Then there's the boring love plot lines, a dull lesbian love story shoe-horned into the episodes, another tedious relationship which seems to be going nowhere - just filling time. The iron-girder which broke the camels back for me was the poor girl being found alive with the thin metal bar through her head, impaled into a tree. They fetch the doctor (about as much use as a chocolate fireguard), who basically writes her off, and tells her she's going to die. Nice bedside manner.
The other "leader" then arrives and decides, contrary to all logical thinking, that the best way to deal with it is to just rip it out of her head. This he does while she screams in agony - killing her horribly. WHAT?! How about using a hack saw, which they had - to cut through it and get her back to the village so they can at least give her a fighting chance?! People have survived injuries like this, what they did made absolutely zero sense and anyone with half a brain cell and rudimentary medical training could see it was the worst possible choice.
I'm done with it now, it's no good for my blood pressure!
Unfortunately, that didn't optimism didn't last long. Season 1 started to go downhill, season 2 is just terrible. In-between the tension and atmospheric scenes, we have the same old awful nonsensical filling. Practically all the characters are unlikeable social misfits with no idea how to act like functional humans. They behave in ways which defy logic, common sense and any type of rational behaviour. Episode 3 finally did it for me. I just can't stand it, and had to write this to vent my steam!
A bus arrives, and they all stand out in the rain for some reason instead of waiting in the bus - some of the residents arrive and as they try to calm the strangers and explain the situation, the "leader" turns up with a shotgun and shoots the tyre to they can't drive off. A house collapses on three people, one of whom tells them they can't carefully clear the wreckage, in case it collapses further. So instead - they leave them overnight trapped and in agony - without any protection from the flesh eating ghouls, to take their chances. WHAT?! Who wouldn't take the risk faced with those options. Sure enough, one gets eaten alive, one dies in agony of his injuries.
Then there's the boring love plot lines, a dull lesbian love story shoe-horned into the episodes, another tedious relationship which seems to be going nowhere - just filling time. The iron-girder which broke the camels back for me was the poor girl being found alive with the thin metal bar through her head, impaled into a tree. They fetch the doctor (about as much use as a chocolate fireguard), who basically writes her off, and tells her she's going to die. Nice bedside manner.
The other "leader" then arrives and decides, contrary to all logical thinking, that the best way to deal with it is to just rip it out of her head. This he does while she screams in agony - killing her horribly. WHAT?! How about using a hack saw, which they had - to cut through it and get her back to the village so they can at least give her a fighting chance?! People have survived injuries like this, what they did made absolutely zero sense and anyone with half a brain cell and rudimentary medical training could see it was the worst possible choice.
I'm done with it now, it's no good for my blood pressure!