UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
damianlewis-800-454976
If you have little to no interest in how modern technology and culture were born, and no interest in the occult, then this show is not for you.If you do not like complex plot lines or nuanced acting, then this show is not for you.If you do not like to have to concentrate for long periods of time, then this show is not for you.If you are not inquisitive about what defines the post-modern era, then this show is not for you.If you find it hard to recognise art for what it is, then this show is not for you.This show is not for you.
sales-85
Definitely more interesting than either Westworld (S02) and Yellowstone. At least, so far (3 episodes in).
The story, based on an actual person, along with the supporting characters and side (or maybe main?) plot, is very interesting.
It sort of reminds me of "Halt and Catch Fire" in its development so far. Not sure why AMC originally backed this and then scratched it. Could have been a bad mistake for them.
Pop some corn, give it a couple episodes. After 3, I'm in.
jaoneal
The is an excellent show that I desperately hope finds its audience. It is an excellent portrayal of 1930s California, as well as the seeds of the counter-culture movement and the ground-work for the evolutionary technological leaps of California's aerospace industry and, later, silicon valley. It is told through an examination of a Jack Parsons, a founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Cal tech that would become center of the academic world for space exploration in the decades that followed.Much like Kerouac's New York of the 1950s, California in the 20s and 30s was chaffing against the "High Church" Protestant paradigm of what it meant to be 'American'. It was a hotbed of spiritualist movements, with reading groups and acolytes of Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, and Rosicrucian/Kabalist/Hermeticist, popping up on every corner. Into this mix, add the influx of serious intellect from Europe as it sought to escape Hitler's rise, and you have an extremely fertile ground for open-minded questioning of 'established truth' and important intellectual break-throughs on all fronts. You also have the ingredients of what may become a ground-breaking tv show.In general, when this period of exploration into the Western mystical tradition is treated at all in TV or Movies, it turns into a cheap excuse for regurgitating tired "Manson Family" tropes. Eastern Spiritual traditions = Good; Western Spiritual Traditions = satanic/bad. This show offers some hope avoiding that dichotomy, although I do worry it will eventually play up that angle just to grab more eyeballs. But at least the first few episodes are truly an excellent exploration of a unique cauldron of sociological, historical, and spiritual ingredients that would go on to change the world.
Felonious-Punk
Fantasy show about a man who is in obsessed with doing something great. It's not the best acted or directed show, but it's tied to history, and it's tied to excitement, and it's tied to religion and strange cults. The parallel story of the Asian hero adds to the color and taste.
