Hotel Reverie

Some really nice moments and the concept was entertaining. But there were many illogical moments that were very frustrating to watch. E.g. With Redream; it's a company with 'state of the art' technology, which hires A List actors, but it gets the actors to run through their scenes live, with absolutely no ability to pause, cut or rewind? Its unbelievable that they would use a system that would waste resources like that and risk scenes and storylines not going to plan.

As many others have said as well, Issa Ray as Brandy was so oddly awkward, her speech and facial expressions and tone of voice did not fit in place here. She is supposed to come across as a bit odd and out of place as she's a modern woman in the world of 100 years ago, but her interpretation of this is jarring and unnatural to watch. It makes her look like she is just a bad actor or was given terrible direction.

Which takes me back to my first point, as if the producers and directors of Redream would allow the kind of bad acting (of the character Brandy) to continue in the scenes without doing a second take! There was no pause button built into the million dollar system used to record??

Emma Corrin was wonderful and the concept of acting within a virtual AI world was really interesting though. I hope they give this concept another go but improve on it.

I've never seen anything from this actress before, but after watching her in this, I'm shocked she has any sort of career. The worst bits were in the movie-within-a-movie, where she stood out like a sore thumb. I suspect a small part of that may have been intentional, but why would the people within the movie cast the actor she's portraying if she was so obviously bad. And then the scenes outside the movie-within-a-movie aren't much better. I don't generally like to blame one person for a movie or show not working, but she's simply terrible -- so much so that after a half hour or so, I gave up on this episode.

This was actually a good episode ruined by a single character that is Brandy Friday, i didn't mind Awkwafina that much, she was bland but she did nothing to ruin the episode. Hats off to Emma Corrin, she single handedly carries this entire episode on her shoulders, mesmerizing performance. Dear showrunners, you need to get the casting right when you have such a good premise. Brandy Friday was horrible, i have never seen the actress before, maybe she's a fine actress in her other works but dear god she was insufferable in this episode. An easy 8 and above episode brought down to an average 6 for me.

Emma Corrin is so pretty in this one. Oh god, I hopelessly fell in love with her. She's so elegant in it. The way she talks, acts, everything just drive me to her like a magnet. She's so classy. She walks like an angel, she talks like an angel. She outshine everyone. I wouldn't watch till the end if it wasn't for her. It was was so seeing her. It's been a long long since I got a crush on anyone like that. Other than that the story was so mid I didn't like they wokify this so unnecessarily. I didn't like the ending. The whole set up felt so not serious and low effort. It's like 2018-19 Barcelona team where Messi carried the whole mediocre team alone and here's is Emma Corrin.

This episode had the potential to be amazing, but it was ultimately let down by a major casting misstep. Issa Rae, unfortunately, brought zero charisma to the role and felt completely miscast-she just didn't suit the character at all. It really pulled me out of the experience.

On the brighter side, Emma was absolutely wonderful. She brought so much charm and warmth to every scene she was in, making her a true standout. It's a shame the rest of the episode couldn't rise to her level.

That said, the cinematography was stunning, and the rest of the cast did a great job. With a stronger lead performance, this could have been something truly special.