The dialogue is exceptionally good. It's poetic and ornate but it also serves a purpose. I love listening to them talk. Quotes like "We have been brutalized with loss. It has made us brutal in return." It's a gem of a line but also serves narrative exposition -there is not true good or evil here only purpose.
People complain that they are acting too serious or dramatic. This is a British period piece. It's based of gothic Victorian 19th century literature and is not modernizing it to assuage manic American attention spans.
You go to any episode of any show that has a few reviews on IMDB and someone will complain that show is boring. Boring is the most subjective opinion. A slow pace for some can be reflective and others boring. A fast pace can be overused action tropes and for others exciting. Boring or interesting can be the difference between watching it after taking too much caffeine or too little.
It's a immensely complex to weave together this many famous story lines and come up with a new cohesive narrative. They are succeeding. And that's not negated just because you find victor frankenstien to be too young or some other detail you feel the need to over-focus on.
It's not a 10 because I get all the rest of their motives but Ethan's is unclear. The rest have been relentlessly traumatized. Would Ethan put himself thru this for money? His back story is likely not fully told but I didn't buy his motivation in this episode. He has a sick girlfriend who he just met who needs medicine. That's not enough.
People complain that they are acting too serious or dramatic. This is a British period piece. It's based of gothic Victorian 19th century literature and is not modernizing it to assuage manic American attention spans.
You go to any episode of any show that has a few reviews on IMDB and someone will complain that show is boring. Boring is the most subjective opinion. A slow pace for some can be reflective and others boring. A fast pace can be overused action tropes and for others exciting. Boring or interesting can be the difference between watching it after taking too much caffeine or too little.
It's a immensely complex to weave together this many famous story lines and come up with a new cohesive narrative. They are succeeding. And that's not negated just because you find victor frankenstien to be too young or some other detail you feel the need to over-focus on.
It's not a 10 because I get all the rest of their motives but Ethan's is unclear. The rest have been relentlessly traumatized. Would Ethan put himself thru this for money? His back story is likely not fully told but I didn't buy his motivation in this episode. He has a sick girlfriend who he just met who needs medicine. That's not enough.
