The River starts tonight and I thought it sounded interesting, and thought maybe some of y’all might be interested in it too. A host of a long running nature show goes missing in the Amazon, and his family and along with a camera crew and a few others go to look for him. The review at the AV Club for it is pretty good. It is “found footage” horror, but I’ve heard that since it’s footage that is shot by a camera crew instead of scared screaming person like some horror movies it should avoid too much shaky-cam.
Anyway I’m interested and I’ll be watching tonight and probably the rest of this season, since it’s only 8 episodes planned for the first season.
Well I like it so far. Setting a horror show in the Amazon is smart, since it’s pretty scary even without anything supernatural, considering the remoteness and animals and insects and such. I really like the wife; she’s determined and capable. I also like Bruce Greenwood in pretty much anything so I liked what we saw of him here.
Regarding the first hour:
I couldn’t quite tell what was happening at the end. The son put his blood in the little “coffin” thing, and something flew down and got trapped in the coffin and then he threw it overboard, and that took care of that? It seemed like all hell was breaking loose and then all of a sudden it was over. But I was freaked out when it first started attacking and when it got the cameraman.
Regarding the second hour:
I had read the AV Club review where it mentioned dolls, but I guess I had forgotten about that, and it freaked me out seeing the monkey with the doll head, and then the tree of them.
It looks like it will be both episodic where they come across something scary each week but also have the overarching plot of tracking down the father. It seems like it could be a pretty good show.
I’m trying to watch it online right now but it stops streaming after about 15 minutes. So far, it’s not bad. I’ve always been a sucker for a jungle adventure stories.
I liked it quite a bit though I had trouble hearing what the characters were saying sometimes; the dialog kept getting buried under the incidental music for some reason.
Question/idea about conversation between Tess and Lincoln (mother/son)
[spoiler]Lincoln basically accuses his mother at one point of having an affair and suggests that that is why Emmett went off by himself without her on the last expedition. Anyone besides me think she had the affair with the sleazeball producer, and that is why he and Emmett hated each other?
Also, any thoughts that Emmett and Lena (the missing cameraman’s daughter) may have had a bit more than a professional relationship with each other?[/spoiler]
This one is holding our interest more than Alcatraz, though it’s a bit eye-rolley at times. Good thing they have the Spanish-speaking Voodoo expert to tell us WTF is going on with each monster-of-the-week. :rolleyes:
This last episode, with Josh the hanging camera-man was genuinely creepy, but did I see one of the dumbest resolutions in the history of TV?
Laura and I were kind of tired, but it seemed to me that the ‘ghost’ was in Josh’s cell phone? I started singing Spirits in a Material World while the credits rolled.
I’ve liked it so far. Obviously any show like this is going to need a certain amount of suspension of disbelief (I was OK with the resolution of the last episode, makes as much sense as anything else, and fit in the context of what they’d said earlier about the Amazonians not wanting to be filmed).
I like that the ultra-badass soldier of fortune character seems to actually be kind of inept, as opposed to similar characters in other shows that are basically omnipotent. He accidentally stabs somebody, gives the guy with malaria quinine poisoning and hurts his hand when he grabs the gun from the nerdy med-student.
The setup is that “the deepest you get into the zone, the more the laws of physics are warped.” which seriously could make for a lot better stories than interchangeable “random ghost thing of the week” episodes.
Also, 21st century and they are the first to notice that this place exists?
But aside from the unavoidable lazy writing, enjoyable so far.
Each their own. I think one of the better things about the show is that they do a good job of intertwining the “ghost of the week” stuff with the main story arc.
But there is so much more potential for episodes. Time going wonky. Gravity failing. A civilization of intelligent monkeys. Giant ants. Portals to other dimensions.
Just caught up on the episodes so far on OnDemand, and I like it, but I really don’t see it as being something that can go on much longer than a season.
And that girl that doesn’t speak english and is always afraid of everything is getting quite tiresome.
I watched the first 3 episodes on VOD last night and it was okay.
I’m getting a sort of Lost-crossed-with-X-Files vibe from it, in that there’s a lot of mystery and intrigue, but they straight up tell you it’s about magic and the supernatural and there’s a self-contained mystery in each episode like early X-Files as opposed to the ongoing mystery piled on more mystery a la Lost.
However, I’m also getting the it’s-ultimately-never-really-going-anywhere Lost vibe from it as well. There’s the mysterious-security-guy thing where he clearly knows more than he’s letting on, and that’s surely going to lead to a big conspiracy involving an evil mysterious multinational corporation blah blah blah, and then it’s all going to go off the rails, but we’ll see.
The reality-TV/security camera thing gets a bit annoying at times.
In the 3rd episode, where they find Jonah (the hanging man), what happened to the black camera guy? Does anyone remember him being in that episode at all?
He (AJ) was in last nights episode, so he’s still around.
Last night’s episode was OK - it was fairly creepy with all sorts of “Don’t open that door! DON’T OPEN THAT DOOR! OH, GOD, WHY DID YOU OPEN THAT DOOR!” goodness, but it didn’t advance the overall plot one iota except to bring resolution to Hot Blonde Chick’s story.
When they kept switching to the shot of the other boat after Cappy’s* “OMGOSH SOMEONE’S OVER THERE” moment, were we supposed to see someone over there? Because I even paused it on that shot and couldn’t make out anything besides the boat sitting there.
*(sorry that was his name on Greek, so that’s what I’m gonna call him until I remember his name here)
What the HELL is going on in this show, and why do the characters in it keep acting like every throughly strange and bizarre and terrifying thing that happens is somehow just another glitch in their quest and not a reason to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE???
I gave up about 30 minutes into the pilot episode. The plot jumps were just too unbelievable to hold my interest. Someone appears in a chopper and lands in the deepest jungle without problem, disgorging someone who is only an expert in applying lipstick, apparently, and she somehow knows exactly where the boat is because. . .why, again? And the young girl somehow magically knows that there’s eeeeevillllll up that creek somewhere. I guess my patience with this claptrap isn’t what it used to be.