Lore (TV Series) Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine (2018) User Reviews

The Scarlet Woman

[3Lina3 · 1/10 · 1 June 2019]

I don't understand what I've just watched. The script wasn't good and the story wasn't captivating. It was quite strange and poor. In the end, it was about neither demonds nor rockets.

I can only interpret it as a story about a man being trapped in myths about women as muses, tools, divine creatures of heaven and hell etc and never being able to realize that they're just human beings like him. I wish he could just read Simone de Beauvoir's ''The Second Sex'' before it was too late. That could save him his life according to this episode.

And yet again the cast looks nothing like the people they're portraying.

Like how?

[sbo_100 · 3/10 · 16 November 2020]

Jack Parsons, one of the strangest and effective figure in 20th century but you do managed to show him as an adolescent, hormonal teenager?

Good job fellas 👏

Really nice

[gianmarcoronconi · 9/10 · 12 March 2022]

Really nice episode that deepens a very mysterious and feared cult and in particular deepens the story of a man who is very convinced of his beliefs and of their relationship with science. The episode is very entertaining and really spot on.

Season Two Review

[southdavid · 2/10 · 13 September 2021]

I finished the first season of "Lore" back in July. The fact that it's taken me almost exactly two months to get through the six episodes that make up the second season should tell you everything about how I feel about it. Though I didn't truly love that first season, this one does away with the aspect of the show I liked and enhanced the part I didn't.

The second season of "Lore" tells the story of six cases, throughout history. The Burke and Hare bodysnatchers, Countess Bathory, a German family murdered in their home, the cursed clock of Prague, Mary Webster; accused of witchcraft and Jack Parsons, Crowley acolyte and rocket scientist.

Whereas the first season mixed in the logic behind its cases and explained the reasons behind some of the superstitions or myths, alongside a dramatic recreation, this second season is just the recreation, no context, supporting information and, in some cases, even a decent resolution is not provided. It's all the worse for it. The performances are fine and again, they've secured some good performers to take part. Emmett Scanlan, Thomas Kretschmann, Jurgen Prochnow, Steven Berkoff, Paula Malcomson and Alicia Witt all appear in various stories.

But the stories are the problem. Burke and Hare has been done several times before, so although that has the clearest resolution it's also likely to be the one your most familiar with. The cursed clock and the Jack Parson's episodes really don't have any story to them, not one that any true logic really applies too. The German murder story is perhaps the most frustrating, given that it suggests that the truth behind it might be out there, but they're not currently able to release the information.

The first season was fine but the second is just a waste of time and money.