The first thing I would like to know is why there are only 34 reviews here (at this time)... with the latest being August 2018... and none of them deal with season 2. Something is messed up there.
Regarding the series itself:
Rotten Tomatoes wrote: ""Falling Water attempts complexity and intrigue but churns out an unimaginative concept lacking a redeemable payoff." I could not agree more.
The only thing I found positive about this overall is the lead actress, who carries the part well. For the rest, there is a difference between a well-designed mystery and loosely-joined random concepts. At first I wondered why the show seemed so disjointed until I visited Wikipedia and found the writer(s) and even directors changed from show to show. No wonder this seems like a mess of a confusing plot line: that's exactly what it is.
I usually reserve 1 star for the worst of series, but in this case I give it 1 star for wasting people's viewing time with (as Rotten Tomatoes points out), an intriguing premise that fails to deliver. This is as disjointed as LOST, as pointlessly weird as the original Twin Peaks series, and as with so many such efforts, leaves the audience clueless as to what is real and what isn't.
The series moves extremely slow. Unless one is really, really into endless dream sequences in which one can't tell whether the current scene is dream or reality, this is going to leave a lot of viewers cold. Add to that gratuitous scenes that have no bearing on the plot whatsoever (evidently thrown in just to be gratuitous scenes), pointless unexplained special effects, and dead-end story lines... and we have the makings of long, boring schlock.
I see too many short 10-star reviews here to be believe they're honest reviews. I find it difficult to believe earnest, intelligent science fiction fans would swallow this drivel without tearing the writing to pieces. There are some lower-star reviews... which are the only ones I find to be honest and didn't read like paid advertisements.
I love a good mystery, but good mysteries require good plot lines. There is little or no continuity in this series, no explanations beyond the cliche, and dream sequence after boring dream sequence that makes less sense than most actual dreams.
There are better things to watch, and considerably better story lines.
Regarding the series itself:
Rotten Tomatoes wrote: ""Falling Water attempts complexity and intrigue but churns out an unimaginative concept lacking a redeemable payoff." I could not agree more.
The only thing I found positive about this overall is the lead actress, who carries the part well. For the rest, there is a difference between a well-designed mystery and loosely-joined random concepts. At first I wondered why the show seemed so disjointed until I visited Wikipedia and found the writer(s) and even directors changed from show to show. No wonder this seems like a mess of a confusing plot line: that's exactly what it is.
I usually reserve 1 star for the worst of series, but in this case I give it 1 star for wasting people's viewing time with (as Rotten Tomatoes points out), an intriguing premise that fails to deliver. This is as disjointed as LOST, as pointlessly weird as the original Twin Peaks series, and as with so many such efforts, leaves the audience clueless as to what is real and what isn't.
The series moves extremely slow. Unless one is really, really into endless dream sequences in which one can't tell whether the current scene is dream or reality, this is going to leave a lot of viewers cold. Add to that gratuitous scenes that have no bearing on the plot whatsoever (evidently thrown in just to be gratuitous scenes), pointless unexplained special effects, and dead-end story lines... and we have the makings of long, boring schlock.
I see too many short 10-star reviews here to be believe they're honest reviews. I find it difficult to believe earnest, intelligent science fiction fans would swallow this drivel without tearing the writing to pieces. There are some lower-star reviews... which are the only ones I find to be honest and didn't read like paid advertisements.
I love a good mystery, but good mysteries require good plot lines. There is little or no continuity in this series, no explanations beyond the cliche, and dream sequence after boring dream sequence that makes less sense than most actual dreams.
There are better things to watch, and considerably better story lines.