This show has a whopper of a first episode. Suspenseful, well acted, if a little implausible. Actually, that is a good description of the entire show so far. But that I god... damn... kid. I often see people be so forgiving towards actors but have no problems crapping all over the writers. While I do agree that some of the writing falls short, in particular for the kid Adam, the actor truly is not good and is the bigger reason why his scenes suck so bad. While his dialogue is not very good, there are scenes where I can imagine them going over a lot better if they were preformed by a better actor. Same goes for the "oh so clever and witty" teenage daughter of the main villain. Her deliver falls short on nearly every line, and her writing is the worst in the show, at least as far as dialogue goes (her character development isn't bad and it often makes sense) but whose genius idea was it to put these two characters together on screen?? Let's forget for a moment how coincidental their relationship is (and how unrealistic it is that this weird scrawny kid who acts like a school shooter gets all the girls despite a complete lack of charm Or charisma) and lets, for a moment, forgive the fact that it is probably the most forced scenario to breed conflict in the whole show, and let us just watch how cringey their scenes are. My god. I'm not joking, it is SO bad. Their scenes usually consist of weird boy barely talking and instead just quietly staring at her in awe as she spews cringey dialogue about, well a bunch of nonsense really. She will quote poets and philosophers, go of on 'quirky' monologues that sound like she is trying to write an 8th grade English paper, and try her damndest to be profound, and every time she's finally finished talking, we cut back to weird boy who just gives her another one of his signature longing looks. You know the one. That look that says "woah, this girl ACTUALLY gets me! She's SMART! She UNDERSTANDS! I'm So SURPRISED at how COOL and INTELLIGENT she is!" That you have seen from every romantic teen drama ever made. Not joking, there is a scene where the two of them need to leap a fence to get into an abandoned park of sorts, and weird boy puts his hands out to help give her a boost, but oh no, quirky girl don't need no help! So she pays him no mind and instead CLIMBS THE FENCE ALL BY HERSELF??? IMPOSSIBLE! And of course, the camera then lingers on weird boy, and guess what he does? Yep you guessed it. He gives her THE LOOK. He is just so effing impressed by her duuude. Anyways, Cranston is great as always and there are some scenes where he definitely feels a lot like Walter White again, more situationally than how he's acting. There are also a couple of seemingly obvious callbacks to Breaking Bad, including a scene with a box cutter. They may well be a coincidences but they sure seem referential. It's overall pretty entertaining and well made, but that kid nearly ruins the whole show, especially since the plot is about saving his life. Because honestly, most of the time I just wish he'd die already.

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