NikitaHoog
To begin with the beginning. I had my doubts, almost had me so confuses i wanted to give up but Episode 6 is a revealer! I'm loving the dream set-up. The different abilitys in dreaming are believeble. Damnnn, what a freaking good show! And not to mention season 2. The twists and sickness are really good.I'm really hoping for a season 3!
dianne00
Another reviewer has compared this to Sense8 and I am in total agreement with them. Unfortunately I had recently binged on Sense8 and its Christmas special (that reviewer wrote in October so I hope he has watched the special by now). Like the previous reviewer, I was so enamored with Sense8 that it was very hard to "get into" Falling Water, I felt the character development wasn't nearly as strong as well as a few other things, including the writing and direction of the Wachowskis), but the reviewer was right, it is a good show to tide us fans over until next May when Season 2 comes out. At first I was going to give up on Falling Water for that reason, but decided after coming here and reading the reviews, I should put my prejudice aside and try to enjoy it. I must say by the beginning of Episode 4 I was becoming more and more interested. It's a good show so I gave it an 8 star rating, I would have liked it better had I not seen Sense8 first however.
AlexBlixa
Falling Water tries hard, but quickly fails to hold attention with its postmodern, fragmentary and mysterious approach. The appeal of this wears off quickly when you start wondering when something is actually going to make sense. But instead of narrative arc we are burdened with clichés and stereotypical hyper-American character tropes. You just know we're heading into way deeper waters before things start making sense and this lack of narrative direction quickly becomes a turn off. And for a show so very dependent on dreaming sequences, it just does "dreaming" really badly. For example, dreamers are offered Ambien to help them nod off. However there's a real "lucid dreaming" drug out there that will put you to sleep in the middle of the day and give you quite amazing dreams. It's called Baclofen. But the writers and producers have apparently never heard of this medication. Who did their research? Also the dreams that characters dream are much too obviously narrative devices, in any case they are nothing like my dreams. They have way too much focus, detail and colour and carry far too much import to be believable on anything but TV. A good try, but "Twin Peaks" this certainly isn't.
stephy_mouse
I find myself counting down the days until this show is back on. I recheck my PVR over and over again to see if a new show just 'appears' on it! 😘Please give this show a chance my fellow sci if nerds!!If you enjoy sci-if shows like the Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, or Regenesis OR EVEN the class novels like Narnia, Through the Looking Glass, etc..**hint**. Follow the small clues left behind (like the following the white rabbit down the hole!!) and around in each scene... words are dropped from songs and comment that you'll hear later on.. people are hidden in small scenes and than are suddenly a bigger character in another... not a show that you can have pee breaks on hence why I Pvr it! I Love it!Btw I love u Tess you are one interesting character! I love your 'hobby art.' I empathized with you most. I like Det Take and his equally catatonic mom! And of course that strong gent named Burton! Can't wait to ride this series for a long time! Ty