Tether

This just tells me, that there are specific characters being kept alive for no reason. Their decisions make no sense within the context they find themselves as well as based on their previous decisions. It's almost as though someone else wrote their character compared to the first season.

Bare in mind, this is about one specific character not a generalization.

It boggles my mind, that this character is more aware of the dangers than anyone else and doesn't say anything to THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Instead this knowledge is used to just reiterate on their background which already been established and fleshed out. This is the route towards dead writing, I hope this was merely a mistake and is not something to expect going forward in the show.

Dead end characters should be killed off or become a supporting character.

Admittedly the premise and concept of this show is very unique and interesting. The life and death nightly danger these people are faced with should make this a must watch. Problem is the writers for this show had no interest in creating believable characters that you root for or an interesting plot.

Why is it every single person in this town uniquely insufferable (including the new comers)! The constant hysterics, saying and doing the opposite of what you'd expect in their situation, and the check box approach to casting and not the ability to act plagues every episode. The dialog, tedious boring drivel, to the point that you pray every conversation would end with them dying a horrible death. And when receiving new comers, the existing townspeople should simply articulate the situation as any normal person would. Those conversations are golden opportunities for a writer and director to create masterful scenes. Not holding them at gunpoint with and over abundance of hysterics and wild gibberish "sigh". The Sheriff, you call this a leader? The constant second guessing, lack of discipline, mood swings, half measures, desire to go on long walks after sundown, or a shred of common sense. And does he have to wide eye draw his gun on everybody he meets for the first time? Well except for the guy chained to a wall. Even then he was hyper focused on setting him free instead of trying to figure out what was going on from someone who clearly knew. Actually he does get bossy for no reason from time to time so maybe that's why he's in charge.

In regards to this season's current progression, the overall plot is going no where fast! This series is no more that a constant cycle of bad decisions, boring conversations, and over dramatized hysterics executed with terrible acting. Season 2, three episodes in and still, no insight into where they are, who are the night monsters, what entity controls them, why can't they enter the house with those special stones hanging, why can't the towns people leave.... just ZERO answers to any major question the show poses to the audience. Even more frustrating, they keep adding on mini mysteries that don't get solved or explained either. Overall they've taken the laziest approach to this series, create a great setting but fill it with random events to kill time and manufacture episodes. This is eerily similar to LOST and we all saw how that big mystery box to nowhere ended. Well that's an experience not worth reliving, time to put this show out of its misery.

The problem with this show is that its not moving anywhere regarding the plot , a guy watching ep5 season 1 have almost the same informations you got even after reaching S2E3 , they spend too much minutes on side characters that are not important in anyway ! , just like all these people from the bus , why they are here ? I think just to waist much more time instead of focusing on the story, if there is one !

Boyd is my favourite but why we watched 5 episodes of him walking outside and then return just like that without anything that can improve the plot , they saw a lighthouse, ok then what ?? This show is soo weird in term of writing.

The first season was interesting, but the cast is too big. The writing and acting can come across as amateur and even downright immature. For all the swearing, the writing feels juvenile. For all the horror being implied, the show is surprisingly not very gory / scary.

It has something, but the cast is too big and too many of the actors are weak.

Boyd and Victor are the best characters.

The show needs major trimming. 10 episodes is too few to even come close to getting to know these characters or move the plot along.

The acting can be a bit over the top sometimes in a bad way... I love the concept and a few characters are standouts, but if this show wants to succeed and avoid cancellation, it needs to make major changes by the end of this season. Less characters, more episodes per season. I hope MGM is listening.

Not sure what changed, but suddenly the show feels a lot tighter all of a sudden. The girl in the woods plot in this episode was so harrowing in a way that I haven't felt before. I was legitimately shook by how it resolved, and I never feel that way watching a TV show. The slow moving monsters never felt truly scary before, but they seem to be evolving (along with the prisoners' relationship with them) and the implications of that raise the stakes and pick up the momentum. I was really unsure about the introduction of a busload of people at the end of the last season, however it has completely thrown the community into disarray, which is a good thing. My impression of the first season was really lukewarm since I didn't buy into the premise that people would discover what is essentially a magic world then decide to give up and just live a boring life in this town. Not anymore.