That was weird. I could see it as her letting him know that everything is bugged - but why would you have your hidden microphones make a noise? Even if it is a natural one, it would cause people to look where you presumably don’t want them to.
Was there some indication that that thing he found was a bug? I thought it was just a little box that makes cricket sounds. (I know that makes no sense, but faking cricket sounds makes no sense to begin with).
I wonder if, for some reason, they want him to see things like fake crickets and electric fences. Maybe they want him to know that he’s being held prisoner in some sort of fake town. Maybe it’s some sort of torture or psychological experiment.
In the British show The Prisoner they were doing it to try to get Number Six to give them information. Maybe Burke knows things, or at least they suspect that he knows things, that they want to know. Maybe the bartender woman is actually working with them. If she keeps helping him perhaps he’ll grow to trust her and tell her what they need to know.
Well, his boss(?) did meet with the psychologist/psychiatrist to try and stop whatever was happening - so Burke is apparently there for a reason.
I hope that it’s not as simple as that woman actually being in league with the captors. That’s an old, obvious, and cliched plot twist.
I give it a solid “meh”. There was some seriously awkward dialogue and acting, and I can rarely make it past that to enjoy a show. And who the hell started the trend of raspy, whispery “Batman” voice to convey drama? I want to punch him in the eye.
Maybe Batman?
I saw the Twin Peaks comments when the show started running commercials and I feel bad for shows when that happens. But when you make a comment like the above, you are kind of asking for it.
As for some of the confusion, I read an article (from someone that has clearly seen the entire run) that said much of this is cleared up by episode 5. Things such as why Wayward Pines even exists. I don’t think that’s a spoiler, it’s really all that was said in the article and it’s on a popular website (USAToday I think). They were just trying to make sure people stick with it and don’t give up after an episode or two thinking it’s going to be another Lost.
As for my take, I liked it, I like Matt Dillon (though never been a Juliette Lewis fan), but I was still sort of ‘meh’ about it. I’m really hoping it finds it’s legs in the next few episodes. The fact that I’m about halfway through the first season of Orphan Black may have something to do with it. My weird meter may be pinged for the moment.
Also, regarding the Twin Peaks thing. I’d bet they could have gotten rid of the forest element, that would have removed some of the ‘this is just like Twin Peaks’ comments. Other than that, it’s not really like Twin Peaks at all. If Wayward Pines was Wayward Suburbia, people could compare it to the Stepford Wives or Desperate Housewives or any other ‘things aren’t what they seem’ movie. But I think the Twin Peaks comparison will die down after a few episodes. So far, the only similarities are a single FBI agent in a strange wooded area. He’s not throwing rocks at bottles, no one is traveling to the Black Lodge and unless the/a killer…well, those of us that saw it know remember the killer, we’re probably in the clear WRT Twin Peaks.
I’m asking for it? What am I asking for?
I was hoping for Twin Peaks weirdness and was disappointed by the first episode reveal… both the content and that it happened so quickly. I’ll keep watching at least to ep 5 though.
I’m waiting. I got burned with the absolute horrible Under the Dome a few years ago. Never again.
I was prepared for that…
I couldn’t make it through the first episode for this reason alone.
I watch it (and Under the Dome) because it’s different. Can’t stand another reality show, police procedural, or formulaic sitcom.
Decided I didn’t want to sit through 10 hours of TV so I just read the books.
In the acknowledgments after the first one the author says it was inspired by Twin Peaks and includes this:
I’m also interested to know this; I don’t want to get burned like I did with Under the Dome.
My understanding is that the 10 episodes covers the entire trilogy that currently exists in book form.
So it will come to a conclusion. But, assuming it gets to the same conclusion as the books it will be easy enough for them to do a second season if the ratings support it and the actors are willing.
What’s up with the ads for “a Wayward Pines story” with pointers to some website? Is there another storyline only presented online?
I agree, it is nothing at all like Twin Peaks.
there was, however, a similar premise in a show not long ago, I don’t think it was a series. Group of people caught in a town, an old hotel, surrounded by some sort of electrified fence (not ‘lost’); everyone in the town unwilling to help. What show was that?
Newhart?
In many ways Wayward Pines reminds me far more of the first season of *Once Upon a Time *than Twin Peaks. But Twin Peaks was a long time ago, and I have not re-watched the series since.