Submitted by StandardBoah t3_10nif5e in television
I think the whole mixing up the episodes thing is pretty unnecessary. I haven't finished watching it yet though but so far I've seen nothing being kaleidoscope worthy in the plot, just me having to manually select episodes. Plot is pretty meh too
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Its a fun little heist series, solid 3/5 from me.
The problem with the mixed episode order for every viewer is I had no one to compare notes with, so to speak, so that didn't change anything for me.
Im just going with the time frame order as I dislike going backwards and forwards in time all the time, confuses me. Does the order change for each viewer? That might make it a 3/5 for me.
It's fun but I found the plot relied on conveniences a bit too much for my liking. Like the glasses left in the vault and the ex druggie fbi agent being a galaxy brain,
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The episode order is randomized per account, with the final episode always being the same. So, if you have four profiles on that one account, you'd all have the same order, but your neighbor with their own account might have a different order than yours.
When it first came out it created a buzz with people working out the best order but after that it was just an annoyance.
I like it.
I’m about 4 episodes in.
I don’t think the gimmick is as groundbreaking as some are saying.
The episodes are written in such a way that it doesn’t matter that much so far for me.
It’s very episodic and so chronology is not that important. Maybe if the heist itself is included in the randomness which would be kind of baller.
They may do this since I’m not finished.
I think the heist was shown as a flashback.
No they have an entire episode for the heist - it’s the last episode no matter what order you get assigned.
Ok, which is after episodes which take place after the hiest. Just semantics though...
I liked it to.
As I replied to one of the promotional tweets, I think the gimmick is really interesting and would be perfect if applied to an intriguing and engaging TV show such as 1899.
The show itself was fairly typical/expected, but it was still entertaining and well done. Just your typical cheap TV viewing, like The Recruit or whatever else. I wouldn't say it was bad, but it isn't anything to care about.
Still I think the gimmick has some potential if used on something better and where the story lends itself to randomized telling.
Overall average show, neither amazing nor terrible.
Found it a little too predictable, the big reveals were somewhat obvious for anyone paying attention.
Also found the 'gimmick' somewhat irrelevant, I semi-obsessed over optimum viewing order prior to watching but having now watched it I am of the opinion that it would have hardly mattered.
Each episode was so sanitised and prepped to be able to watch it any order that it somewhat hindered each individual episode.
Overall, cut the nonsense make it a flashback / flash forward heist movie of 2 hours and I'd have given it 6/10.
> Overall average show, neither amazing nor terrible.
How very Netflix of them!
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I think they forgot the most important element of a heist - making it fun. The show and characters were not fun at all for most part. I did like the prison episode but that was about it.
urgasmic t1_j697tml wrote
the characters sucked so it was hard to invest in the experiment.