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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I thought it was good, but not great. Some of it is because I think the long arc of the story is more interesting than the structure of the individual episodes, standard whole is greater than the sum of the parts stuff. One thing that does bother me is how Groff plays Ford. It makes sense that his character could become increasingly arrogant to the point of putting himself in personal and professional harm, but if you watch him within episodes he'll vacillate from naive schoolboy to dark quasi sociopath without so much as a cue, like he's unsure what to do with the character. And it's not the obvious moments, like when he's working Kemper, or Brudos, or others for info. It will happen in small scenes where he's standing in a hallway looking outside at Devier, and it really takes me out of the scene. Other times, he can bounce between earnestly confident and cowardly, but that's more a function of inconsistent writing.
There's also little reason why he gets back together with Debbie other than they just wanted to put her in two more episodes.
Overall, I found it enjoying, but it's more of a good show than a great one, IMO.
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Two things treated similarly I had very different narrative reactions to.
I really like how they weaved in the
stuff without comment. Gave a sense of the gravity of their work in real time, and I trust it will pay off well in future season.
Didn't so much like how they introduced the
storyline. Making it seem more like a crisis of confidence and a general 'WTF' moment than anything.