I Haven't Told You Everything

The opening moments of this episode presents some sort of terrifying event taking place, but the footage on screen denies that. It's just people running and screaming. There is no hint of anything that would suggest "what is that?" For all intents and purposes, it appears to be a lovely day that people are just running and screaming during.

Now, this does seem a bit nit-picky I realize, but this is just the beginning of an episode of television that seems directionless and intentionally obfuscated. It has all the hallmarks of some low budget schlock that was greenlit as the result of some kind of nepotism. The acting seems fairly standard for network television. Nothing too amazing or egregious happening here. The camera work is likewise pretty standard network television fare. Nobody is going to be winning any awards for this series, but not everyone has to be a winner.

The real problem is the writing (and maybe some blame can fall on everyone else for agreeing to be a part of this). The most obvious issue is the erratic time jumping that the show does. This can work, but the story needs to work before you toss it in the blender first. The result here is that you never have a solid grasp on what is happening when other than some (definitely not all) of the major plot beats. This also results in the characters never getting enough time on screen to start to give a crap about any of them (assuming you can even figure out who they are).

There's plenty of plot convenience and holes as well as multiple instance of "are the writers aliens who have never been to earth before?" level conflicts with how reality works.

Overall, I will not be watching beyond this episode and can not recommend anyone else does.