Thought we had a thread on this. Did anyone end up watching it? Started a few months ago an wrapped up recently. Stephen King / HBO / Ben Mendelsohn(<3) / Jason Bateman. All great
I'm about halfway through and I'm really digging it. Intriguing story. VERY Stephen King
Finished the other day, binged through it real fast
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It was solid! I was SHOCKED that Jason Bateman died right away, I thought he was gonna be the co-lead. I like that they got someone high profile for that role, that was a good diversion
I think the first half was much better than the second. Around episode 5 you sorta learned everything you were gonna learn about Cuco so the back half turned into a lot of stalling to get to the climax. I think it could've been a few episodes shorter for sure. But boi was the climactic fight pretty good. They had so many characters just hanging around together those last few episodes, you just knew shit was gonna pop off and bodies were gonna start to drop. That was a tense scene, even if it was full of idiots who all got themselves killed. Minus the mustached PI who never stood a chance
The Cuco climax in the cave wasn't as good as the shootout unfortunately. Gave me True Detective S1 climax vibes but obviously only a small percentage as good