Season 1 Episode 8: Charm Offensive
Air Date: December 19th, 2025
Synopsis: Carol takes a different tack with The Others and discovers more than she anticipated. Manousos awakens in unfamiliar surroundings.
Directed by: Melissa Bernstein
Written by: Jonny Gomez
I really want to like this show, but the pace is wearing me down. It feels like they only had 7 episodes of content that they’ve spread out.
Genuinely feels like this ~9 hour season could’ve been a 2 hour movie. This episode had me hammering the skip 10 seconds button, I just don’t care about anything happening on screen anymore…
Yes, it would have been an amazing 2 hour movie I bet.
A movie that you would have forgotten 2 hours later. The implications of a hive mind world are mulled in the silent scenes and in the days between episodes. A 2 hour movie would have felt unbearably rushed, shallow and unsatisfactory, to me. I’m also glad they didn’t drop it in one whole season. I watched the first 4 in 3 days and I regret that.
To each their own.
Cheers to that.