objviewer
Joined Sep 2005
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Ridiculous audience pleasing lame plot turns. Character arcs destroyed. Too bad. The intense atmosphere and themes of Season 1 totally abandoned in favor of attempted thriller spy story shenanigans with some Deus ex Machina thrown in.
And to top it off - why was it all so dark? I don't mean thematically dark, but visually dark. I could barely make out the characters' faces on the screen. And my TV shows other shows with no problem like this. Exception being Game of Thrones season 8 penultimate episode, battles were mostly shadows. What gives? Get some new lighting or something. Maybe I'd like it better if I could see it.
And to top it off - why was it all so dark? I don't mean thematically dark, but visually dark. I could barely make out the characters' faces on the screen. And my TV shows other shows with no problem like this. Exception being Game of Thrones season 8 penultimate episode, battles were mostly shadows. What gives? Get some new lighting or something. Maybe I'd like it better if I could see it.
Season 1 was a chilling, thoughtful depiction of a society that descends into a misogynistic authoritarianism, creepily showing the scariness of how easy for so many to accept the persecution of women as a way to power.
But then season 2 and on, the series became more a conventional "look what happens next" with plot twists for the sake of surprise plot twists and audience pleasing revenge scenarios with some graphic violence thrown in to make it all really serious. Entertaining enough.
But compare to a truly great series like Game of Thrones (season 1-5). In Handmaid's events happen to move the plot forward and have the characters react. So June miraculously stumbles on her mother, allowing her to leave her kid to get back to the thriller action sequences.
In Game of Thrones events happen because of the characters' flaws and psychology, which evolves and further creates events that with hindsight are inevitable.
Handmaids is very entertaining, but, after season 1, not great.
But then season 2 and on, the series became more a conventional "look what happens next" with plot twists for the sake of surprise plot twists and audience pleasing revenge scenarios with some graphic violence thrown in to make it all really serious. Entertaining enough.
But compare to a truly great series like Game of Thrones (season 1-5). In Handmaid's events happen to move the plot forward and have the characters react. So June miraculously stumbles on her mother, allowing her to leave her kid to get back to the thriller action sequences.
In Game of Thrones events happen because of the characters' flaws and psychology, which evolves and further creates events that with hindsight are inevitable.
Handmaids is very entertaining, but, after season 1, not great.
I think The Sixth Sense led us to believe Shyamalan is a masterful writer/ director. But evidently just the director part has held up.
Actually, direction, scene framing, camera angles etc, is interesting here. It's just the plot with the contrived Deus ex Machina twists and clunky dialogue are so lame and ridiculous as to seem like written as an assignment in a high school drama class. Or maybe think of how students doing improv might try to sound like how police and FBI agents talk and act. Guys running around in swat outfits with guns does not necessarily create the tension a thriller movie requires.
Did enjoy music though.
Actually, direction, scene framing, camera angles etc, is interesting here. It's just the plot with the contrived Deus ex Machina twists and clunky dialogue are so lame and ridiculous as to seem like written as an assignment in a high school drama class. Or maybe think of how students doing improv might try to sound like how police and FBI agents talk and act. Guys running around in swat outfits with guns does not necessarily create the tension a thriller movie requires.
Did enjoy music though.