Parallel

This was such a beautiful episode! I'm completely stunned by the directing, the performance of the actors and the screenplay. Very well done. If it was a movie it would probably be one of my favorites.

So far this season has been everything I've wanted, not what I was expecting, but I'm loving every second.

This show handles emotions so well. Despite the unrealistic scenarios, all emotions feel very real. The acting is simply incredible, big props to Ato Essandoh. You can feel every conversation in this episode. But because of the strange scenario, my heart does not know what to feel, who to side with. You'll know what I'm talking about once you've seen the episode. Also the cinematography is just brilliant (like every episode). Even if you don't exactly know the reason why certain shots are filmed a certain way, you feel the impact nonetheless.

9.7/10.

There is fiction, and there is science fiction. The literal only difference is science. This show did not contain that, it only contained the suggestion of it. It was purely an emotional endeavor with no execution to explore the complex elements that it contained. Parallel universes are like a giant canvas of opportunity. This was like a high school drama geek using monet's water Lilly's and using it as a canvas to write their poetry on. It was a frivolous episode with flat performances and was for me the highlight of this shows failed potential as a work of science fiction as well as a narrative piece altogether.

I wish I had skipped it. The first three episodes were very enjoyable and they've been getting worse and worse since. This episode is the bottom of the barrel. I think the writer and producer forgot that this series is a Sci-Fi Drama, not a Romantic Tragedy. The story was not unique or even interesting and you could see the "surprise ending" coming a mile away. There is so much potential in this series, and in this episode in particular, but the opportunity was wasted. As Kipling remarked, this episode was nothing more than the "proper prostrations to the gods of the marketplace." Very disappointing.

A superb portrayal of longing and an inability to undertake risk - the fear and reticence of the outsider.

beautifully rendered and acted