This is absolute joy, if joy was measured in simmering symbolism and heaping convoluted knot of characters. I love it. I live in Portland, and it reminds me so much of my friends and family here. I wish it cut a smidge more to the bone, but at only a few episodes in there is still time to sharpen the sword.
Can it be pretentious? Sure. Could it be over the top? Ironically, only a little (as long as you suspend your disbelief of the supernatural elements). But that is the beauty. It is for the most part some real modern real life magnified, enhanced, and most supernaturally cranked up to eleven.
Can it be pretentious? Sure. Could it be over the top? Ironically, only a little (as long as you suspend your disbelief of the supernatural elements). But that is the beauty. It is for the most part some real modern real life magnified, enhanced, and most supernaturally cranked up to eleven.