1) As a woman I can't even tell you how depressing it is to see another male-centric, male dominated sci-fi world which depicts its dystopian seediness through more male bullshit.
2) The longer hair suits Joel Kinnaman extremely well. He's somehow gotten hotter than in The Killing?? + That soft voice of his. Glad he got a leading role.
3) Appreciate the multiculturalism.
1x4: Weird that she would prioritize denying that she knew him over the whole mass-killing thing. But also the beginning of the ship so nice.
-Has a The Host kind of romance thing going on and it's v. shippable... But also technically her boyfriend isn't dead in this world so...?
-Continues in the tradition of many of its sci-fi predecessors by not really knowing the difference between explicit sex scenes and sexual chemistry, 'cause nobody wants to watch bodies just slap against each other. Not as bad as others shows have been though.
-Joel Kinnaman's expressions are great.
-He could of made her go away by telling her the truth but he decided to totally push her away.
-That Quel would suddenly reveal she's against immortality and have it be suddenly taken well... just feels like bad writing.
-Kovacs was an asshole to his sister. Like you can see when he doesn't include her in the group that he 'ever' loved and lost, his his willingness to die without a thought of her for his 'family' etc. Def weirdness going on there. But she's obviously crazy too. This makes the root of the show a dysfunctional sibling relationship, one where you don't fully understand the logic of their actions bc they're fucking crazy. And when your baseline story is a soap opery weirdness, it's hard to take the rest seriously as good writing.
-Depicts a lot of violence against women and yet by leaving unspoken that much of the fucked-upness in the world panders to male associated desires, basically invisibilizes it under 'crazy rich people'. (The streets advertize female prostitutes and fight rings to men and thus seem designed for men. We are introduced to a club where men go to kill women for kicks, etc. But it is never specifically portrayed as a violence against women issue, just a 'seedy' futurist world.) In an interview Dichen Lachman had good things to say about the show and how it challenged violence against women but...? The fact that we have another sci-fi show depicting a future like this shows how easy it is for writers to envision and take for granted that sexism. Whatever.
-Nice at least to see the characters react with horror to the situation.
-Has this abused woman rising from the flames into warrior story arch which is... ok ok.
-Yeah, that scene was gross. Really did not need to see. Gross ass violence.
-Has comedic moments but then cuts right into serious drama.
-Over all, just not good. Really really not good.
-I mean you could say the world corrupted the sister so that the easiest way she could see to make money and create security for her and her family was by torturing and killing other people, but like...
-It doesn't make sense from what we're shown of his character that his double would really just go and relax on a beach while everything was happening.
-The ending scene with the rich family is like- who the fuck cares.
-If I could do it again I would watch up until 1x5ish and then just stop.
-Any season 2 needs new writers.
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