Very Mediocre
I don’t know about the other seasons, but the writing and acting in the first season is very predictable and uninspiring. Much of the dialogue rests on cliches; for example, the submarine captain speaks as if he’s a caricature (imagine a satire of a 1940s WWII movie, with some kind of southwest twang). Personally, it kills the flow of a story when dialogue is used to deliver a lot of information; for example, when the American wakes up in Japan he’s asking questions and in ways that its clear that the writers are trying to give us more info but it makes the dialogue sound stilted. And then there are all the secret government agency machinations and acronyms that, again, just sound predictable. There are some individual scenes and dialogue snippets that are successful but, overall, there just isn’t much tension in this story because I don’t really care about the characters (probably b/c there are so many characters you really don’t spend much time with any of them).
carl334 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/22/22
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