The West

The series began with such promise but with each episode became more convoluted, contrived, and confusing. In trying to be weird for the sake of being weird, the story too quickly frays to the point of fracture. Outer Range wants to be Yellowstone set in The Twilight Zone but ends up getting lost in the shadows of its own obtuse obscurity.

Will I watch another season? I don't know. Do I care enough to even hope the series gets another season? I don't know. I'm left feeling nothing much at all either way.

...recalled Ed Wood's ambition in the eponymous comedy to make an entire movie out of random stock footage: "Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo."

While I enjoyed most of episode 8 as a single hour of television, as a season finale it wasn't great. This really should have been episode 4, with whatever they had planned for S2 being eps 5-8.

Nothing was resolved in any satisfactory way, except maybe the Rhett & Maria subplot. Instead they just created more questions. And after spending so many scenes and episodes twiddling their thumbs, its just not good enough.

I also found it really weird that the mother just went home after losing her granddaughter. I know the cop didn't want to help at the rodeo (that in itself was weird), but wouldn't you get Rhett to help you look. Maybe drive around town or wait at the Sheriff's office, or go to the Sheriff's home. I know she wasn't at either place, but Cecilia didn't know that.

The one good thing is that Billy dying means no more singing every episode. Who thought that was a good idea to do once an ep? Waste of 5 minutes an episode - I skipped past them in the end.

If Prime continues with this series, they need to either fire the current creator/showrunner - or hire a new co-showrunner and editor who knows when irrelevant scenes need to be cut.

This show has an amazing cast, compelling action, engaging characters, and a storyline that drew me in.

But I'm sick of cliffhangers. It seems like every streaming series does this to beg the powers-that-be to renew them for another season. How about somebody makes a ten-episode show that delivers the complete story arc? Make great entertainment, wrap it up, and move on to the next project.

Like most reviewers, I liked the start of the series. Very disappointing conclusion that did not make a lot of sense and was mostly a downer. Hard to enjoy.