Teacup

The show has its moments, but continued stupid decisions by the characters and no decent explanation to what the purpose of the visitors are is maddening. Characters continually separate and put themselves in position to be taken over. Main character can't hit a target from 20 yds with scoped rifle. Teenage kids put in charge of the safety of the young kid carrying "harbinger", yet separate and become vulnerable. Just some dumb decisions to put themselves in dire situations. Lazy writing. Would love to see a well-written show where people make good decisions and still seem to be in a seemingly unwinnable situation.

If it was renewed for a second season I don't think Im gonna watch it. It's been promoted as it's good as From series or Lost. It's nowhere near that. It has some light at some points but it drops everytime so it kinda bores the s**t out of it. It's not scary or gives you chills or anything. Could've been great. I love Sci-Fi but this is not the thang. I think Episode 2 was the only good episode so far in the series other episodes are so boring that you might fall asleep for sure cause I did. Im just watching this so I could finish this asap and never continue to watch it if they green lit season 2.

It seems like the director put all of the effort into the pilot episode. Well, to be exact, the first 2 episodes are really great, the show starts off very promising and sets up an intriguing and mysterious situation.

We're left wondering what's happening and is it really happening?

But then comes episode 3 and after minute 27, things start to fall apart. As soon as they try making sense and explaining what's going on, all of the magic and excitement and mystery that the first 2 episodes built up evaporates. Because it all becomes so boring and predictable.

Which is a real shame. I really wanted this show to be more, but this isn't Lost. And it certainly isn't From. It's just... bland.

I watch for Yvonne Strahovski. There's something about her - a magnetism, a quiet force - that makes you think she should be headlining films, not locked into roles on TV. Still, she owns every scene as Mrs. Waterford in "The Handmaid's Tale," the kind of role that gets under your skin and stays there. Then there's "Teacup." It wants to be eerie, unsettling, even grotesque. Instead, it drags, provoking yawns where there should be tension, eye-rolls in place of chills. Like the moment they buy the kid's story, then start throwing around the title "Assassin" like it's a game. Sure, the show is reaching for a place alongside the heavyweights of dystopian drama, but it misses the mark - plot, dialogue, even the characters - just shy of hitting the right notes.

As soon as the blue line appeared, I immediately thought of "lost" and "under the dome", two other shows where people are trapped someplace and there is some mysterious danger they must avoid.

This is very poorly written because there are lots of scenes where the simple question of "why" is never asked and that's how they string us along like they have done before.

It's not natural for humans not to ask obvious questions.

It takes more than some spooky music to not notice how lazy the writing is.

This show has potential because of the tension between the characters but the isolation/mystery element is just another run at an island or a dome.

I'll still watch it but the slow pace won't keep my attention for too long. It's too boring at this pace, and I am not as dumb as they must take me for.