I loved the brilliant pilot episode but this one's just kind of boring. The acting is still great, the characters are still engaging and the soundtrack is still beautiful. But there's a lot that's baffling about it.
Meg is introduced to life at the Guilty Remnants. Her storyline frustrates though. The whole thing with the tree and the axe is perplexing in the wrong ways. It's almost like the cult members are presented as kooky to make viewers more curious, but it backfires as rather than seeing the strange and random things they do, some proper insight into the way the cult works would have been more interesting. How do they recruit? Why don't they speak? Why do they smoke? How do they operate? The only main takeaway is that they take away a person's items to make it easier for the person to separate themselves from their past life and reduce the possibility of them going back.
Kevin's storyline is disappointing considering how good it was in the pilot. What's the whole thing about whether the mystery man is real and Kevin questioning his own sanity? I get that he's not in a good place after his family has been torn apart, but this "is he sane" storyline is odd. Even odder is that for a "mystery man", the mystery man isn't mysterious at all. He withholds his name, of course. Because why not? And what happens with the toaster, if this is to make some philosophical point, I'm not seeing it.
And Nora. Another example where this show strays into plain weird territory with no justified reason. The same is with Tom's storyline.
It looks like the creators are trying to create a mystery by withholding vital information, but this only serves to frustrate and confuse.
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