I am in trouble. My twelve-year-old daughter thinks that this is a good show. And she isn't open to reason about it being total crap. I think that she sees it as some sort of a weekly version of Hunger Games (which also sucked) with the female heroine thing going on. I am going to have to just delete it from the DVR scheduler so that it stops getting recorded. That should put an end to it.
So, anyway...I had to watch episode three a couple of nights ago. Can anyone guess how good it was? I cannot remember detesting a character as much as I do the female lead in this show. She shows nothing but utter contempt for intelligence. As I have stated elsewhere, there is absolutely zero chance that this idiot could have reached this age in a dangerous world...she would have been dead in childhood.
Episode three has her making yet another inexplicable and incredibly dangerous decision ("Hey, the bad guys are going to be here any minute" "Yeah, well, I'm staying here for thirty minutes because I'm compassionate or something."). And, as in the previous episode, her moronic ex-military uncle goes along with her incredibly stupid and dangerous decision. Which ends badly. But not badly enough. Lots of people die and are hurt because of stupid girl's bad decision. Does anyone learn anything from it? No. So, since not enough people were killed by stupid girl's bad decision...especially her and/or her uncle...the audience will be treated to yet another dumbass situation next week. It's inevitable.
Equally inexplicable...militia leaves with captured dumbass uncle. Stupid girl and new friend bomb-making girl somehow construct (at least) three bombs out of household cleaning products that are similar to C4 in destructive power. Then they somehow manage to overtake the militia, plant roadside IEDs that kill lots of the militia while somehow leaving dumbass uncle alive. Then they flee a few yards across a steel truss bridge which they have carelessly dropped a satchel charge on...stupid girl sets off the charge (again, inexplicably) with a flaming crossbow bolt which totally destroys solid steel truss bridge as if it had been done in by a controlled demolition, securing their escape from the surviving militia. Oh, and the CGI of the bridge explosion is very cheesy looking...I've seen better on youtube.
Again, I can't stand watching something that insults my intelligence. At least, not something which is asking me to take it seriously. I mean, I enjoyed Gilligan's Island and Green Acres because they were supposed to be ridiculous and farcical. I was never aked to actually believe that those situations were anything other than utterly ridiculous. But this show...it wants to be taken seriously as if I could somehow accept that the laws of physics no longer worked...no more electricity...and that a post apocapyptic world was a safe haven for bleeding heart liberals and extremely stupid people.
I almost forgot to re-mention that the heroine in this show is singularly unattractive. Don't get me wrong...I think an ordinary looking actress would actually be great...but instead we have this girl who someone in casting thought was typical Hollywood good looking but really isn't. She has a permanent sour look on her face. Her face is just angular enough to be irritating to look at. And her acting sucks. She seems to think that scowling frequently is the epitome of dramatic ability. I guess it doesn't matter since the show is so godawful horrible but I would have much preferred an outright ugly or homely girl to this one. Well, one who can act, anyway.
So...this show is a total waste of time and I am going to have to put my foot down and stop my daughter from watching it before serious damage is done to both of our brains.
I do think it is going to be canceled soon.
