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I've just finished the third episode, decided to check out the written reviews and found them to either be to focused on Florida or too trapped in a hand out murder mystery American audiences are used to.

This show is pure art, every aspect of the first episode is done to leave you in a cloudy haze of confusion. Episode two adds to the confusion, and builds upon small red herrings used to lure your attention away from any clues. While the third episode puts the audience in a position where they think they've figured it out just to rip the rug out from your feet and leave you gobsmacked.

This is the first real Murder Mystery i've seen made in America but using the European style. They don't care about making you feel smart, they want you to feel stupid, and by doing that they make Yancy the detective and not you the viewer and in doing that they have truly made a worthwhile show.

I do not give out 10s, I do not believe they exist, but I would say this is a high 9, maybe I'll be proven wrong by the end of the season. But if you can stomach it till the end of episode 3, you will believe in magic.

I've been on the sidelines about this show, while I found most of the main cast completely annoying all but Sole, a lot of the side cast were fun. I'll even say the Sith is an awesome character. But when the entire show rides on the casting of the main protagonist there is no one worse then Osha/May. She spends the whole show in a perpetual state of not knowing what acting is. For everything she is outside of Star Wars, she just continues to be inside of Star Wars.

For a "Girl Power" Star Wars show, especially in the wake of the powerhouse Furiosa, they've some how made the entire "Strong female" cast unbearable somehow achieving the opposite of what they intended, having the male actors carry it. Despite the Lorebreaking and forgetting to look up what a Juxtaposition is, its a solid 7/10 unless Osha/May is on the screen then a very fair 1/10.

The setting, action, fight scenes, and characters are great, but everything they do right they follow quickly by attempting to virtue signal which feels like a betrayal to the existing fanbase.

The main character's flashbacks give nothing to the current storyline outside of trying to place her in a saintly position which makes her a less relatable character. She's a scientist at the top of her field, a professor at a prestigious university, she is a Lesbian who lost her partner to a foreign conflict, a first nations person from Australia and an activist with a criminal record. The list goes on and on and on and on, but none of it, not even her sexuality is at all important to the current events they put just as much effort into presenting how horrible the world is just for it to be completely overshadowed by how horrible the Ark is.

I don't know, I'll keep going because it is well made. It just seems like too much for zero narrative reward.