JemiW

Finally got around to watching it. (It wasn't high on my to-do list). It had its moments: Exner's despair when the helicopter turns back, Nick showing a crumb of selflessness by telling his Mom thru the glass to save herself. It's not enough to make me want to tune-in for S2. Even the zombie attack was meh...seen it before. How Salazar got the doors of the arena open, I wish they'd shown that instead. I was hoping at least to see some familiar faces lurching along: girl junkie Grace, Lisa's boyfriend, even my man Moyers! He'd have made a great half-eaten zombie soldier.

Why aren't you writing this show? Now that's EXACTLY the sort of scene I'd have LOVED to watch—a Zombie Catch-22. BTW: I liked Moyer. He was a potentially fun A-hole sent too soon to his reward—a shade of Jimmy McGill...with a battalion...in the apocalypse. At the very least his death should have been something special. But NOPE. All the cool stuff happened off camera, again.

IMO the script writers are doing a really bad job, and/or they don't trust the cast. Perhaps they think we're morons who need everything spoon fed to us in one boring, pompous soliloquy after another. Daniel's was over-the-top. Strand's was worse. Let them all just go away and have the story follow the dishy Guardsman back to San Diego.

This article is a spot-on postmortem, so are the fixes for the most glaring narrative failings of TURN. Though I don't believe it can be fixed this late in the game, even if TURN somehow survives for another season. I was a fan and I do love the cast to a person. S2 E6 was it for me though. I thought every scene between Simcoe and Anna was so badly done, badly written. None of those lines made a whit of sense coming from those characters. It ruined the character of Anna for me. She was the cleverest person in the room with her cool Scheherazade thing with the mad Simcoe. I loved those scenes between Roukin and Lind. But her uncharacteristic hissy-fit in front of him ended that great dynamic. Bummer! I don't like love-sick Andre. I liked the cagey, rakish Andre of S1, with the end-runs on Lee and Rogers, the hand jobs and hot sex with the actress, and gentlemen's parties. I don't like Hewlett in love. I ADORED the impeccable, droll, clueless, yet surprisingly brave Hewlett of S1. I love Burn Gorman! I never liked Abe in love. In fact, I never liked Abe. I do really like Jamie Bell. I just feel the character of Abe was poorly conceived. Season 2 certainly had more action, but it was more hysterical than historical, an Assassin's Creed III riff on the Culper Ring. I just can't get into this freaky, alternate-universe American Revolution.

Yeah, but why give HER the knife? They're in terrible danger and Abe hands tiny Anna his only weapon. Oh, right! Cus now she's some sort of freakin' kunoichi-esque warrior princess...and he's just a candy ass. Makes perfect sense…except it doesn't. Like most everything this season. Oh, and the gunshot... that would have carried over 6+ miles. Everyone on East Long Island would have heard it.