I watched the first 4 episodes last night and feel season 1 was better but maybe the second 4 will change my mind. I am also just not a fan of Anthony Mackie so maybe that has something to do with it as I disliked him as Falcon and not a fan of him as Kovacs either so far. It is kind of funny that they teamed up Misty Knight and Falcon actors in this though since those characters dated in the comics.
Ughhh... The acting and dialogues are so corny this season.
I think the best actor in this show is the AI from the hotel.
Sometimes the show reminded me of CW shows.... but i guess when you have writers and directors with b and c shows in their portofolio it isnt such a surprise.
S1 was better, this one is a 6/10 but thats just because of the cyberpunkish atmosphere which even that doesnt reach high points... could have done so much more.
You know that it is going to shit when Poe/AI geniunely shows the best acting in the tv show (like HIz said).
Basically everything is meh at best. The only things other than Poe that were nice to watch were Falconer, Colonel Carrera (not Tia, lol) and the juicy piece of ass governor Harlan
Falconer and Carrera don't really have good characters but the actors are somewhat "hooky" and charismatic.
Other than that - S1 is still the only decent one, at least the first half of it
The most intersting things in the show altogether are just kind of in the background. Resleeving. The costs (money and soul), impact on society (shown for a bit in S01) and humanity as a whole (some only fear real death, some fear losing an expensive sleeve just like real death) etc.
I guess i'll give the books a chance but from what i saw they are not that different story-wise.
After the first sleeve and its bipolar disorder that turned the atmospheric tone into.. something else entirely, I just tried giving S02 a chance out of curiosity. Alas, I'll have to echo the general consensus, this is not the cyberpunk I was looking for(tm). The parallelism with CW's productions indeed is a fitting one, both in terms of writing and overall direction. At one point I asked myself, do I even care about any of the characters? And what about their motives? I honestly couldn't find any positive answers, the only solution was to grab the cortical mkvs and throw 'em in the shift-del furnace.
I watched it all and it was still quite entertaining, though not nearly as good as S01, which is a shame. I liked Mackie, but the writing and the plot just got worse and worse compared to S01.
Its fun, yes, some nice action but its become bland and soulless.
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story is nothing spectacular but passable i suppose
however somehow as with S1 the whole storytelling/pacing falls apart in the last two episodes. everything feels sort of rushed and there's a lot of convenient coincidences , weak dialogue and laughable 'concluding emotional scenes' going on
After season 2 and not having read the books I do not really care that it was cancelled. If I knew the full storyline that might have changed my mind but just going by the show itself season 2 was such a let down compared to season 1.
Yeah, season 2 was a mess and it indeed fell completely apart in the last episodes.
I also didn't like the visual style of s2, which had a color palette of nothing else than grey, dark grey, black and dark brown it seems
S1 was a lot more colorful and had better set pieces, like the skyscrapers in the clouds and such.
I also disliked Mackey's performance, it's like he could only switch between two modes: angry and serious. A lack of charisma, not a guy to root for. Not that Kinnaman was great either but he fit the role much better.
I'm not familiar with the books so I can't hypothesize 'what if' scenarios, but the show and its specific direction definitely felt like they had nothing else to offer. My only good memories of the Cabròn will remain the initial very promising episodes of S01, before things turned into cybertrashland. S02 was the coup de grace.
Well the show didn't do any service for the books. The budget constrains and wonky decisions in regard to changes butcher somehow the stories. The actors were mostly miscast too, with that latino detective in first place and Kinnaman being a hobo charismavoid in second.
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