All things being equal, I'd probably have not given "La Brea" a chance, it seemingly like a pretty bland example of US Network Science Fiction that gets a couple of seasons and then is cancelled without any conclusion. But. Another member of my household wanted to try it and I ended up joining them. It's a pretty bland example of US Network Science Fiction.
A giant sinkhole opens in Los Angeles and the people who fall down it awaken still in the City, but in 10,000 BC. This divides the Harris family, with Eve (Natalie Zea) and her son Josh (Jack Martin) in the past and her estranged husband Gavin (Eoin Macken) and Daughter Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) in 2022. Gavin has, for years, suffered from strange visions, which has driven a wedge into his family but now the visions seem inexplicably linked to the new location his wife and son find themselves in.
I mean, lets be clear, this is garbage. On a both a conceptual and technical level. The acting is bad, the characters are boring, and the CGI work is usually pretty terrible. It's the latest in a long line of shows to try and recapture "LOST's" zeitgeist impact, but it's trying to do it without spending the same amount of money, either in terms of promotion, or calibre of performer, and just having a weird, high concept, plot isn't enough to get you there. It's also really bad at two key aspects of telling a story like this, which are, after 10 episodes - I've no idea where we are geographically, by which I mean the distances between places seems to change to suit the story. One set of people will travel all night to reach a place and another group will be there in minutes. And also, I've no idea how much time has actually passed since they arrived through the timehole, it feels like days, but they've really not done much, but nor are they fighting over what meagure resources they do have.
All that said, and acknowledging that it's rubbish, I am going to keep watching the second season. It's the nature of these shows for me that once they have a hook I need to know what's happening and will stick with it until it's inevitable cancellation. You shouldn't watch it though... save yourself.
