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The last interview with Vince made me a little sad
“Yeah, it’s going to frustrate some folks, just to be honest. We work at the speed we work at, much like glaciers melt at the speed that they melt at. For my own sake, as much as anybody, selfishly, I wish we could get this job done quicker because I don’t know how many years I’ve got left. I still want to do more things, but I go slower than I used to. So it’s going to be a while between seasons; it just is. Unless we invent a time machine or figure out how to stop time, it’s just the nature of the beast.”
I like it. I appreciate the pace chosen by the artists.
Don’t know how anyone can call this show slow and boring. One of the best new sci-fi shows this year, IMO.
General public is too used to immediate gratification. We need to have answers now, we need the next episode now, we need we need we need…
I’m loving the slower paced story. I love watching Carol listen to the voicemail greeting each time, it helps put us in her shoes. We’re getting spoon-fed morsels of answers as she’s learning the. Really well done
When you just factor in just how many people’s brains have been addled by the instant dopamine gratification provided by the likes of Tik Tok, YouRube Shorts and Instagram Reels’ bottomless feeds of inane drivel, and their resulting inability to focus on content for more than 60 seconds at a time - you begin to understand the types of people who complain about the show being slow.
I agree. I was completely enthralled throughout the season.
Loved it!
I didn’t mind the pacing. A pretty good treatment of the mass-mind idea. I like that it doesn’t go the typical scary-action route.
I view people who complain about things being slow and boring the same as Mike from RLM. Doesn’t need to be defended. Go watch Fast and Furious and let me enjoy my show.
I assumed it would be slow, that’s what he does, and his shows have gotten progressively slower.
We’ve watched three episodes so far. I’m really enjoying it. I have so many questions and can’t wait to get some of those answers.
I enjoy the show, but also agree with the pacing issue. The season is nine episodes long, and we spend one of them following a guy driving up the coast for 20 minutes. No mystery, no conflict, just a guy and a slippery rock.
The cinematography is beautiful, but the show lacked any stakes for 80% of the runtime, and didn’t explore the implications of the scenario with nearly enough gusto. I would give it leeway on this by looking at is as a slow-paced character study, but the only character in the show does not feel developed either.
Overall the show is enjoyable, but I did not feel guilty using the skip button to get through the most egregious scenes
Yeah. I was also a little annoyed how, during the episode where she visits the dude in Vegas, they played the entire “our feelings for you haven’t changed” message every single time. It felt like 1/3 of the episode was her impatiently waiting for the message to finish
Weirdly, this one didn’t really get to me. The absurdity of having to listen to a passive aggressive voicemail because of your own actions just to harass the people on the other end was funny to me. That being said, it’s inclusion in a show that already likes to drag things out is a bit annoying.
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My theory is that the alien is an allegory for artificial intelligence. 🤷
I kinda got that as well once Carol
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was able to have that grocery store to herself and took that painting. Haven’t seen the last episode, but will be interesting once her visitor arrives.
Some people are also comfortable with the fact that their own family are now
AIpart of the hive mind, but still treat them as living relatives.Also I also thought it was interesting that the hive mind can’t create its own food, but feeds off of the attention and creativity of normal people because they appear unable to create anything new. Case in point Zosia being very excited to think that Carol was in the midst of writing a new novel—an act that she apparently can’t do despite having a global collective’s artistic capacity and experience at their disposal.
Definitely lots of ways to interpret the show!
The disparity between IMDB ratings and reviews is quite interesting. It’s averaging 8.2 after nearly 69,000 ratings, so you’d think the reviews would be overwhelmingly positive, but it’s actually very mixed. Sorting them by review date reveals that a lot of people rated it 10/10 based on the first episode, while a lot of the negative reviews came later from people who became annoyed by the pacing. I haven’t watched it myself, just thought it was interesting how controversial the show seems to be.
I found breaking bad to be a bit of a slog around season 2 and 3 too.
I know Pluribus is is going somewhere. I trust Vince.
Meh. I saw a bunch of people absolutely obsessed with it and I just didn’t see the appeal because it was so slow and boring. Obviously that’s just because it’s not my type of show, but that doesn’t make the claim any less bullshit.
