# Anyone else watch "The After" on Amazon? (open spoilers)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 11, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031 "2014-02-11T03:48:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/1 "2014-02-11T03:48:38Z")
It’s one of their new Pilots. This is by Chris Carter of X Files fame.
It’s kind of a mish mash of Lost, the Twilight Zone, Walking Dead and a bunch of other shows.
I kind of liked it. At least enough to watch a second episode if there was one. But what I didn’t like was…
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Spoilers…
The fraking alien at the end. I don’t know. In and of itself it wasn’t too bad but the idea that two of the characters are some how related (via tattoos) was kind of goofy. I would have preferred some kind of natural phenomenon I think. Did anyone else see it?
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/2 "2014-02-11T21:39:26Z")
Just noticed there was already a thread. Can a mod merge them please?
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/3 "2014-02-12T02:43:54Z")
> [@Quimby](#):
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> The fraking alien at the end. I don’t know. In and of itself it wasn’t too bad but the idea that two of the characters are some how related (via tattoos) was kind of goofy. I would have preferred some kind of natural phenomenon I think. Did anyone else see it?
It was my impression the creature was a demon, not an alien.
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/4 "2014-02-12T12:39:42Z")
I mostly liked it up to that ending. Given that, I’m not sure I’ll watch it if it gets picked up, though I might give it a shot.
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/5 "2014-02-20T18:43:51Z")
> [@epbrown01](#):
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> It was my impression the creature was a demon, not an alien.
Once that showed up I knew the show would not be good in the long run.
Too many mysteries from the get go.
Also, I have a hard time with the French accent–it grates on me, so that main character would have been awful.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-watch-the-after-on-amazon-open-spoilers/681031/6 "2014-03-02T03:34:58Z")
I liked it. I hope it gets picked up for a least one season.
I know it seems like a weird thing to focus on, but I really appreciated the standoff scene between prison guy and officer lady. The scene itself was a cliche trope, but at least this time the officer doesn’t give up her gun. Because cops would never give up their gun in real life.