re: Below - Netflix Horror Series (Josh Hartnett)

I just finished Talamasca. A bit flaky at points but generally well done. But this??

How TF did he wash up on shore & no one see him from the Sir John Franklin? From miles out at sea? Unconscious, in 40 + degree water?? I’m guessing he’s actually dead & the rest of the series is all just a pre death construct. Or they all died from the 1st episode. That would make as much sense. Jacob’s Ladder type stuff.

*** OK so they’re not nearly that imaginative. I’m purposely not bumping this thread because this stuff is so terrible. So episode five. Idiot gets in the car with two people he knows pretty much are going to kill him. They then try to kill him. The car runs off the road and lands in the exact spot along all that shoreline where the giant squid just happens to be chilling.

Then the idiot helps one of the two guys who tries to kill him. Because he’s nice like that.

Meanwhile, scientist, lady saves “samples“ and then takes them back to the town where she proceeds to handle the sample without any gloves or safety equipment whatsoever. She does this knowing the entire town is just gone through some sort of toxic chemical reaction. Grabs the egg looking sack thing and watches a baby squid thing pop out. It goes into a freezer and she just… Closes it and puts a random object on top of it. There, that’ll keep it in there!

What the actual frick.


**** finally got done. The mining sub plot doesn’t actually suck, nor does the massively wealthy, fish company, but it was so convoluted and poorly done. There was no hope for this series.

It actually had a decent framework, but they just botched it all the hell up. And the daughter I recognized from the BBC series Lockwood & Co. , which was bugging me till the very end.