ali-278-412957
Pointless ending, absolute waste of time. Too many loose ends, don't waste you time on this!!
con_au
Knowing that this was a piece of Soderbergh experimentation, with a companion app allowing the viewer/player to do a 'choose your own adventure' plot line, I was intrigued to find out how the tv version would render with its forced plot line. The answer is - very very badly.
Fans of Soderbergh's styling will be rewarded, but the limits of time and the impossibility to explore multiple plot directions hacks the screen version to bits, leaving gaping holes in the plot and character arcs.
It's a shame - for my liking the production, script and performances were all on point. Soderbergh rarely gives us a hero, and it's hard to love or even care about some of the pivotal characters, especially the always watchable Sharon Stone in the role of a children's fiction writer (!!!), but there's enough levity and heart in the peripheral characters to have kept me invested.
As other reviewers have noted, the conclusion won't satisfy many people. It didn't satisfy me. In fact, I presumed that there must be more episodes still to come. As anti-climaxes go, it's real heavy on the 'anti'. Plot threads and characters disappear. Improbable and inexplicable choices are made. It's rushed and messy and ultimately inconclusive.
Unresolved endings leave you either dying to hook up with your mates to unravel the 'what ifs', or they leave you slack-jawed, shaking your fist at the telly as your eyes roll out of your head.
I think most people will, sadly, end up in the latter category.
reneramos-05531
I watched the first two episodes. Editing was a bit choppy but they held my attention. There were some gaps in continuity but I thought that was just artistic license being put in play; I thought it was a technique used to keep the audience guessing. After tending to business for days, I watched the last episode. When I went to my "On Demand" list to catch up, I noticed there was not episode 3 or 4 so I repeated watching the four available episodes. I could see right away that there was a big hole in the plot that I missed. What happened to episodes 3 & 4?
