Eden

Loved it - very gripping. Great ending too! A good dark and sensual mystery thriller.

As everyone else has said, the first episode is awful, but the show does get better after that. Unfortunately, what it never actually gets is anything close to good. None of the characters are worth caring about and there are so many extraneous plots that go absolutely nowhere and ultimately have no point. I spent the majority of the 8 episodes bored out of my mind and only stuck with it because so many users said it was worth it in the end. Sadly, it was not.

The first episode is weird. There's no denying it, I don't get what they were trying to achieve at all, but trust all these reviews that say stick with it. It then turns into a real complex mystery with fascinating characters and multiple points of view to tell this story. Really enjoyed it!

Direction and actors were fine. The series gimmick was also interesting: in each episode, you go through an entire week over and over, but from a different person's perspective.

But I didnt like the plot and the characters. So I guess, if you like the cliche story "I did drugs and I dont remember what I did last night but a murder happened" then go for it. It's slow, the character arcs are uninteresting and it lacks energy. It's way too focused on drugs, as everyone uses, and everyone is passive or makes stupid choices. And everyone is broken. It's a miseryfest.

The do try to make each character's arc interesting, but to me everything is just boring. It's like there's nothing but drugs, sex and corruption everywhere. I didn't like any of the characters or their motivations or their progression.

Also, the 1st episode ends in a fake cliffhanger. That was a complete troll.

Episode 1 was aweful and plenty of reviews here point out that it gets better further on but not by much. Dedicating each show to the perspective of an individual character worked well enough but that technique wasn't all that novel. If you still dislike the series after watching the Andy centered 3rd episode then I recommend you abandon it...as it more or less plateaus from there. I gave it a 6 but is probably a 6.5 but I can't justify rounding it up to a 7. I wouldn't purchase this series on its own but if your provider includes it in its lineup go ahead and take it for a test drive.