In a world overtaken by a mysterious wave of forced happiness, Carol Sturka, one of the immune few, must uncover what’s really going on - and save humanity from its artificial bliss.
While the concept is very interesting: everyone is happy and lives in a hive-mind perfect world, Carol is left out and starts unraveling some mysteries. Keep in mind, this show is made by Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul), and it excels at being that: sometimes nice, entertaining and keeping you glued to the screen at the edge of the seat, and some other times just plain slow and boring. The first few episodes were actually really really good, but after the fourth, the show drops the ball immensely, there’s no arc, no plot, basically nothing happens.
The main actress does a good job, but they wrote her as a skeptical idiot who sometimes fails to understand the core mechanics of living, who’s not funny and can’t carry this forever and ever.
Two popcorns, maybe three if the new seasons become more interesting, although it seems there’s a lot of wasted potential. I don’t understand how morons can call this “a masterpiece”.
