Absolute agreement! Big “meh” from me. I get the need to provide some back story to The Reapers but did they? Lot of talk from but nothing impressive.

Definitely going to be spoilers for both seasons, so turn back now if you want to avoid that.
So…just finished season 2 and I’m struck by something the Chief of Police had to say as being a one sentence critique of this series…both 1st and 2nd seasons. That quote being “These witches just hate men.”
And I have to wonder if that quote doesn’t exactly describe the screenwriters and producers of this show. Because in BOTH seasons now the central themes have been “Men are evil…women are victims.” It happened in the first season with the victimized women in the religious community…and now in the second season with the innocent wife being framed for murder by her police officer husband. In both seasons the main theme was that authoritarian males will wreck destruction on everything they touch. And this wasn’t limited to heterosexual males alone..oh no. In the first season the show depicted the male police officer in a same sex relationship as being a violently confused and emotionally stunted thug who beat his own same sex partner. So the domineering and power-driven dynamic of Males wasn’t excused as being only in heterosexual relationships with these writers of the scripts.
And this seems like a deliberate attempt to stoke divisions between Genders, in my view. Because in the 2nd season we see the writers mention these very divisions during the arrest of the mercenary who had the poison. While he is in jail he states…directly….that “wars are everywhere…between generations, between classes, between men and women” and he says this about this war between men and women twice. So the writers are distinctly aware….thinking about….these supposed struggles. And in my view they are attempting to exacerbate them.
By comparison, I look at other “Nordic Noir” murder mystery series like “The Bridge” or “Bordertown”/Sorjonen tv series and you will find male and female police officers working TOGETHER to catch the criminals of society. With the two partners complimenting one another. In The Bridge it is Sagan Norien who is the brainy one while her male partner is more the traditional muscle, while in Sorjonen it is he who is the brainy (eh…if we can call his craziness “brainy”) one while the female Russian partner is the “muscle” who can move pragmatic levers to catch the suspects. On balance I prefer these types of shows that do NOT promote the idea of gender warfare between the sexes over shows that prism every action thru the idea of “here is how women are being messed over by Men…always”. I prefer to see a more balanced view of characters with different skill sets versus shows that promote the concept of “every Male is bad…it’s always their fault” that characterized this show.
As I say, to me this show went out of its way deliberately to promote a narrative of gender warfare…and had to do so very awkwardly in the 2nd season. For the police officer to so overreact to his wife’s affair by getting her arrested for a murder she did not commit is a U-turn from his previous character portrayal that it comes off as a badly written departure. He’s suppose to go from being willing to turn HIMSELF in for accidentally killing a deer to keep Justice….to being willing to send his innocent wife to prison for murder? That’s anti-Male hatred at work by the writers. They had to shoe-horn an act that went totally against everything the character had previously done…and it comes off feeling ham-handed. That the goal wasn’t to tell a good story consistent with itself but instead was to promote a man-hating agenda.
So I’d suggest other Nordic Noir shows. I’ve already mentioned 2 I consider to be excellent. Bordertown and “The Bridge” but there are a host of others that have much smoother stories…and even handle the issue of male versus female roles in society and in police work far better than this series did.

Did this just get dark? Like “what sort of metaphysical experimentation is going on here?” darkness…that last line…nah…maybe it’s just me.

The phone in scenes i think were spot on when it comes to virtual live streaming. Ever watch a live stream of a book/movie panel or comiccon live stream with people not attending(tv show talk shows) the live event but are at home on screen? There is an absolute pause-delay in the stream flow. Kind of akin to the old TV bleeping of foul language back in the 1950s through current years. What viewers actually view is a feed that is 3 second-delayed from that which the producers/directors/video employees actually are viewing within real time clock seconds on set. Therefore, they had/have ability to BLEEP out the foul words before it reached the viewing audience at home. So phone in timing was not ‘off’, Imho.

I do agree with the ‘writing’ it was short of comical validity per the Connors actors’ chemistry with each other. Did they lose a showrunner writer, and not replace them yet?(rhetorical)… Time will only answer that question.

there are some points about this “drama” i really dont get…maybe its just me.
1.when you nearly have a full continent to choose from, why on earth would you stick on a nearly inhabitable half-desert area instead of going north towards fertile land?
2.apart from the whole “bad guy” after “bad guy” after “bad guy” thing, why after years in the apocalypse you havnt equipped yourself from the vast US-army supply with some half armored vehicles for self protection? dont tell me, 1-5% of the population left over have consumed ALL gasoline in the whole states..
3.being smart enough(which is not gimple’s way) to go north, by now there should be agricultural progress instead of “tomatos in pots” etc town farming.
4.seeing again and again examples,how the dead drive themselfs towards noise/smoke etc,why nobody thought till now to use it to lure them into destruction? a valley like in a TWD season,a nice firepit there and some fortified bulldozers to put them in a deep pit should help clear areas effectivly.

but then, since years its clear,all this isnt on the mind of the writers,its an endless self-pity/cruel society perpetuum mobile,guided by the sick society concept of George Romero.
“eat the rich”as a graphic novel…tiring,really tiring.

at last,the how many by now “re-inovation” of this sorry Morgan might this become? now the “avenger of the poor” in Zorro-style?
for Gods sake!

I agree, there has to be another reason and wonder if it ties in with the destruction of…….because the story line kept jumping back and forth, so there has to be some kind of connection there.

For a minute there, I thought he was going to find her in the trunk!

So a steam turbine without an overflow valve. I guess the plague wiped out all the engineers and mechanics or anyone with a half a brain….

Another Earth https://www.primewire.tf/movie/770513-another-earth is an all time favourite here. She’s in 6 episodes as one of the 11 guests of the who-done-it retreat we’ve read. Nice cast. Hopefully it has an Icelandic feel!

the space part I realized as soon as they showed her looking at the portal (before she actually looked through it). I figured they were in some sort of machine because they kept saying about the program shutting down and them being lost. I agree a second season would be good since she still has to rescue her husband and son. One thing kinda stinks though, I really did like her and the Captain together lol

Geez, Louise! What a mess!

I figured out the futuristic part about half way through, if you paid attention to the tech they were using it was quite obvious they weren’t actually in 1899.