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i think the only good thing about this series is the peculiar atmosphere. The story shows some promise but they do manage to f it up real soon. I didn't understand why it had to be sooooo slow and why there were so much blabbering. I hoped it would come to good avail, because I like slow films, on the whole. But here, naaah, they were just looking to fill the time and make this a miniseries when it could have been half as long. Seriously. And they weren't much clear on the story as well. This is usually a good thing, obviously, but here it left me feeling like the writer just couldn't decide which version of facts he liked better. Watch this at your own peril of wasting 5 hours of your life.

I had no great expectations upon watching this series. I was just looking for something fun to watch. And boy, did they deliver! This starts as something and then it goes on being something completely different, something utterly mind blowing. What's unique about this series is the ethical complications that are intertwined in the story. I'm not sure if people get this, or they think they are watching just another sci-fi series, but it's pretty thick in moral dilemmas with no easy way outs. Everyone keeps saying that season 2 was disappointing because the main characters all stepped out of the picture. But I say this is not about the life of Ethan Burke or his family, it never was. It is a sociological treatise if you like, about living in an experimental town. About fascism, conformity, greater good, evolution, animal ethics, etc etc. It covers a pretty dense theme base and I was very excited to having watched this. In my opinion season 2 is even better than season 1, though it's being made clear that there;s no more that mystery film you were watching. Questions remain, that's for sure, but we can no longer categorize this as a mystery series. I just kept thinking, what if Abbies are no evolutionary anomaly, but actually a step up from humanity? The idea is pretty old, older than biblical: Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's ark, etc etc. Every civilization has a myth where humanity has strayed so badly that they only way to fix its errors is to wipe out and write on a clean slate. So maybe the Abbies are just the next step in evolution, like homo sapiens came out of the previous kind. People come out more evolved emotionally, they are altruistic, they empathize. Not everything is about intelligence. So maybe the Abbies are to begin civilization again from zero- a better, more humane civilization, and now that a place like Wayward Pines came to be, and humans are spreading like syphilis again, that will not possible. At least not without a fight. I hope there will be a season 3, because we've only just started to get a grip on what's really going on and I have great expectations from now on.

There are a few things that could be better about this film, and by that I mean mainly acting. And some dialogues. That's no serious damage though, if you're into problematics and ethics you' ll love this one.