I gave the show a reasonably good rating, but I partially attribute this to my being so starved for scifi/fantasy series and the pickings are particularly slim this fall now that shows like Dark Matter are in their winter hiatus and others such as Into The Badlands won't commence season 2 until sometime the next decade....
Every negative comment about the obtuse stupidity of the family given the circumstances is well earned and deserved. I sometimes wonder why writers and showrunners decide that the characters should be such, but here is hoping they have a plan, a positive plan, so we don't end up hating everyone but the one daughter who seems to have an actual brain.
There are some positive elements if you really delve through the first episode. It was fairly fast paced, we did get a grasp of the characters, and there is a lot of crap going on! There were definitely some moments in the show that surprised me, and that in itself may be a good thing.
The show dropped some heavy hints that ancient folklore is going to have an influence in the show, so as another reviewer pointed out we seem to be headed to a confluence of SuperNatural and The Walking Dead all in one.
I will stick around for at least a few more episodes - 13 are in the can apparently and I am intrigued as to where it is going to end up, but I think some matters will have to improve significantly in order to it to land at the end of the season a success - chief among them that the writers give their characters a brain and not be so obtuse about what is occurring.
Every negative comment about the obtuse stupidity of the family given the circumstances is well earned and deserved. I sometimes wonder why writers and showrunners decide that the characters should be such, but here is hoping they have a plan, a positive plan, so we don't end up hating everyone but the one daughter who seems to have an actual brain.
There are some positive elements if you really delve through the first episode. It was fairly fast paced, we did get a grasp of the characters, and there is a lot of crap going on! There were definitely some moments in the show that surprised me, and that in itself may be a good thing.
The show dropped some heavy hints that ancient folklore is going to have an influence in the show, so as another reviewer pointed out we seem to be headed to a confluence of SuperNatural and The Walking Dead all in one.
I will stick around for at least a few more episodes - 13 are in the can apparently and I am intrigued as to where it is going to end up, but I think some matters will have to improve significantly in order to it to land at the end of the season a success - chief among them that the writers give their characters a brain and not be so obtuse about what is occurring.