The show is not about the catastrophe at hand, nor about how the whole world is dealing with it. Other very capable hands switch off directing duties for subsequent episodes, retaining that consistent tone throughout. Fans of the show Atlanta will notice Hiro Murai's trademarks as a director in its pilot episode it's nicely shot, and there's a kind of detached humor masking a lot of the seriousness, and sadness. There aren't talking heads on newscasts explaining exactly what's going on. There aren't people screaming and running for the hills. So it will likely not appeal to people wishing for quick resolution, a faster pace, and exposition to answer their questions. The adaptation is unique to a lot of current TV, it's haunting and quiet, and I actually appreciated the slowness of pace I'm somebody who rarely gets gripped by shows unless they have a cinematic quality (the Wire, Chernobyl, and a few others). Fans of the book I think will be pleasantly surprised, as many of the qualities here are retained. Important to note it was based on a book, one that was weirdly prescient, and also very surreal and disjointed in its structure. It might be one of these shows where critic reviews rave, and audiences will be turned off by the quiet pacing of it all, the time jumping, and others just will not accept that the show has taken the point of view of a female artist as a main protagonist with a global catastrophe as the backdrop. I guess the subject is a lot for people to handle right now. A lot of the reviewers here seem triggered by.
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