S02.E01: Enemy Lines

[Tara Ariano]

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In the Season 2 premiere, Dr. Theo Yedlin awakens from suspended animation and finds himself in the middle of a rebellion in Wayward Pines.

[Accidental Martyr]

I guess I'll watch this to see how Hope Davis survived.

[spiderpig]

I really liked season one and wondered why it sat on the shelf for over a year while Fox gave the green light to some really crummy shows.

Based on the TV eps I read all the books and enjoyed them.

[jhlipton]

6 hours ago, Accidental Martyr said:

I guess I'll watch this to see how Hope Davis survived.

Living up to your user-name, aren't you?  LOL
I'll wait for recaps to see if it's as bad as last season.

[Accidental Martyr]

48 minutes ago, jhlipton said:

Living up to your user-name, aren't you?  LOL
I'll wait for recaps to see if it's as bad as last season.

This has the potential to be the next Under the Dome but with better actors and production values. ;)

[ottoDbusdriver]

8 hours ago, Accidental Martyr said:

I guess I'll watch this to see how Hope Davis survived.

Exactly.  How ??  Did the Abbies get full and just walk away from her ?

[Accidental Martyr]

53 minutes ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

Exactly.  How ??  Did the Abbies get full and just walk away from her ?

Maybe she sprayed some super secret Abbie repellent on herself.

[Primetimer]

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[numbnut]

I saw a review that said this season isn't so great but I like a lot of Patric's films from the 80s (Rush, After Dark My Sweet, The Beast) so I had to check out the ep for myself. It wasn't that bad, but the glottal fry in the opening voiceover was like nails on a chalkboard. Why would they only unfreeze one doctor at a time? That makes no sense. And it sucks that the better actors (Dillon, Gugino) opted out. This show needs all the help it can get.

Edited May 26, 2016 by numbnut

[LittleIggy]

I'll keep watching since it is a summer show and last season was fun to snark about. It's unbelievable that the Hope Davis character survived. I want to know how the First Gen Hitler Youth took over. I miss Toby Jones.

[Free]

1 hour ago, numbnut said:

I saw a review that said this season isn't so great but I like a lot of Patric's films from the 80s (Rush, After Dark My Sweet, The Beast) so I had to check out the ep for myself. It wasn't that bad, but the glottal fry in the opening voiceover was like nails on a chalkboard. Why would they only unfreeze one doctor at a time? That makes no sense. And it sucks that the better actors (Dillon, Gugino) opted out. This show needs all the help it can get.

I can see why, it's a problem I forsaw last season: the limited premise, the mystery being revealed early which cuts down on the suspense factor it had going for it, the lack of a narrative structure from burning through all the books and then having to make stuff up this time around, and like you said about the better actors leaving the show, etc.  That and it doesn't help that Theo looks similar and is pretty much an Ethan stand in and the repetitiveness of another cycle.

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 7:12 PM, ottoDbusdriver said:

Exactly. How ?? Did the Abbies get full and just walk away from her ?

"Oh you're available for next season?  Move on to the next fodder."

 

Edited May 26, 2016 by Free

[juliet73]

This episode was pretty lame. I guess because I already knew what the backstory was, etc. There's no mystery or suspense to it. They're back to the reckonings. I'll probably watch a couple more episodes to get my Jason Patric fix and then I'm out.

[ottoDbusdriver]

Good thing we got a full recap of all of Season 1 to start the episode -- because it was all so forgettable the first time around.

And Ben is now committed to lead the rebellion against the 1st Generation -- oh great, he thinks he's fucking Braveheart.  And he's there to protect all of humanity including the folks still frozen in the mountain.

Wayward Pines is new and improved -- and by improved it's a military camp with trigger happy security that have to be told not to shoot people. 

And we start out with Jason Patric's character, Dr. Theo Yedlin, enjoying himself at a tropical resort with a hot wife when he "accidentally" encounters Sheriff Pope at the bar.  But instead of getting kidnapped or running into a truck, it looks like Theo kind of got the real story from Pope -- but Pope just waited until he passed out from the booze and kidnapped him.  At least it was one of the least traumatic kidnappings.

Recent rebel activity causing earlier curfews -- that's the first thing that Dr. Theo gets to hear on his drive through town.  That must seem odd, for what he thinks is still Hawaii (at this point).

After getting piled into a SUV for the drive to the hospital, they are followed by an army vehicle -- an army vehicle that conveniently disappears when Theo jumps out of the SUV, all while rebels watch from afar, only for the army vehicle to reappear later as he's running away.  We'll call it the magic jeep.

After the rebels blow up the SUV with a grenade, Theo continues running.

And there is no end of weirdness by the locals -- creepy kid bicycling on the sidewalk, guy painting his house at night, strict woman leading him around, creepy couple.

After Theo visits the random house of the creepy couple and tries to make a call from a landline from a phone sitting next to a picture of Dr. Pilcher, still confused Theo heads out and the creepy couple "call it in".

Theo wanders off the road to avoid the military and stumbles upon the local firing squad range.  Welcome to Wayward Pines !!!

Dr. Theo finally gets hauled off to the hospital and meets the new 1st Generation leader of WP, Jason.  This is the guy that we met in the penultimate episodes of Season 1, and he spins a big lie to Dr. Theo about a secret military study examining the effects of war trauma on civilians.  All while Theo can't understand why he is the only doctor and all the other doctors are dead.

Wait -- Pope recruited Theo from Hawaii. How the hell did he get him back to WP for internment all while unconscious -- by boat ? Submarine ?

And the patient with the bullet in her neck is none other than -- Kate.   Kate looks like she has been freshly shot, and considering this is at least 3 years after the events of last year, did they freeze Kate while she was injured ?  Shoot her after unthawing ?  Why would they even keep her alive in the first place ?

Dr. Theo gets to perform the operation in front of an audience -- all of them unmasked -- dressed like doctors or medical students.  Five bucks says Kate gets an infection.

Turns out 1st Genners have been dropping like flies, all courtesy of Ben and the rebels -- and Megan Fisher shows up in a wheelchair to consult with Jason on the progress with the rebels.  And even though all life is precious, they do seem to like killing people.  Ben is going mildly crazy -- you can tell just by his hair.

Meanwhile the Rebels are living in a van down by the river.  Seriously, WP is not that big how can they not be found by the military ?

Dr. Theo unpacks his "things" which consists of his clothes and personal effects from when he was on vacation in Hawaii. That's it.  After having a lovely flashback about his marital issues, Theo wanders down the hall for a lovely bottle of carbonated celery juice from a vending machine with Dr. Pilcher picture on it.  Theo hears music down the hospital hallway, he snoops on an electroshock session in progress -- and it's Arlene, the Sheriff's station receptionist, getting shocked. 

I don't get why the hospital appears to be in immaculate condition, the paint on the walls of Theo's room is peeling badly.

And we learn Theo is originally from Boston, as he attends to Kate when she wakes up.  Kate identifies Theo as 'Group C' and tests him on the cover story, and Theo discovers that Kate is handcuffed to the hospital bed, and then lead off to a hotel to meet his wife all while getting confusing answers to small talk with the driver. Downtown WP looks like a shithole under military rule.  As a bonus he has his own personal military escort.

Wait a tick -- Jason is pumping Kate for information about the rebels ?  Why did the 1st Genners even let Kate live ? Kate gives Jason the opposite of pep talk about how bad he is at preserving humanity --  he doesn't take it well.

I'm not saying the militarized 1st Genners are neo-Nazis, but they are all dressed as brown shirts. Just saying.

Wow -- Pope's little recruitment process is pretty good.  He brought an unconscious body and his luggage all the way back from Hawaii to Idaho.  Which gives us a couple more flashbacks to marital problems in Hawaii.

Dinner at the Wayward Pines Hotel kind of sucks -- it looks like a peanut butter sandwich.  I bet Theo could really go for a bison burger about now.

Theo discovers that his hotel room window is locked shut, but a friendly neighborhood rebel shows up -- in broad daylight, no less -- to pop open the window and help Theo escape.

This rebel grills Theo about Kate and whether she has spilled the beans about the rebels.  As Theo and the rebel make it to the street, it is filled with people all heading one way.  Turns out everyone is headed for what looks like a reckoning.

Jason uses the reckoning platform to talk about how this "month long" rebellion isn't the way Pilcher would have wanted it.  Hold on, so the end of last season had Ben waking up after being put back in the fridge for 3 years, so how long has Ben been defrosted in order to put things in place to mount this "month long" rebellion.  With Megan Fisher as cheerleader, Jason announces a general amnesty for anyone that comes forward.  How stupid does Jason think these rebels are ?  He has been ruling with an iron boot for over 3 years, and he expects them to stop rebelling an cooperate.

Of course, absolutely no one comes forward.  Nobody. Jason's a little pissed about this so it's time for some killing so they drag 3 people up onto the stage from a van.  I'm pretty sure that the woman that is being executed was the barista from the coffee shop from last season.

As Theo rushes to help the woman, Ruby, that was just executed, Theo's wife spots him and calls out his name.  Just as Ben and two rebels show up and announce to Jason that they will surrender if they stop the killing.

With the rebels surrender, all rebel sympathizers are rounded up -- you know, for safety purposes -- and probably all shot.  Can't let that firing squad range go to waste.

Theo reunites with his wife, Rebecca, at the WP Academy, and then gets a dinner invite from Jason to the mountain.

Jason wants to keep Theo around to teach a new crop of doctors, but Kerry thinks it's a mistake.  Jason doesn't want another Ethan Burke.

The rebel that busted out Theo from the hotel, ends up in the back of a van with Ben.  Something is going on there -- I think he's a double agent maybe.

Megan Fisher wheels into Kate's room and dumps on her that the rebellion is over.  And then she decides to pretend to be concerned about her pain meds and tries to inject something from a needle into Kate's IV.  Kate wisely vaults from the hospital bed and knocks Megan Fisher to the floor.  And while telling Megan that she wants no part of her new future, Kate slashes her own throat.  I guess Carla Guigino wanted out of this crapfest as well.  The best part is that she bleeds to death all over Megan Fisher.

And we get our first shot of the fence this season -- I guess all the holes are plugged up and the power is back on.

The military driver of the van opens the fence, knocks out Theo in the front passenger seat, gets out of the van, puts a rock on the gas pedal, and the truck drives out into the beyond with Theo in the front seat of the truck, and Ben and redshirt rebel in the back.

And then all of the phones in WP start ringing in the middle of the night -- I think it's Jason calling everyone to find out why Theo is late for dinner at the mountain.

The camera pans into Kate's hospital room and pulls back to show bloody wheelchair marks leaving the room and going down the hallway.  We never did get an explanation as to how Megan Fisher survived that Abbie attack with only paralysis of her legs.

And the episode ends with Theo waking up and getting his first up close glimpse of an Abbie through the truck windshield.  Followed by hundreds of Abbies heading past the truck towards the fence and attacking the gate in the fence -- why would they electrocute themselves when there is a perfectly good manwich inside the truck ?  How will Theo And Ben and redshirt rebel ever get out of this predicament ?

[Anela]

Kacey Rohl seems to be popping up everywhere (The Magicians, iZombie, etc). She had me missing Hannibal. 

I didn't catch the recap, and don't remember exactly how the first season ended, so I'll have to google. I read the books, after seeing the first episode last year, and was interested in that ending. 

I don't blame Carla's character for taking her own life. 

[MiseryIndex]

i bet if they knew they'd get more than 1 season they wouldn't' have crammed all 3 books into the first.

makes me sad what could've been. book 1 ends with him becoming sheriff. which was what like 3-4 episodes in last season?

[riverheightsnancy]

I watched while doing other stuff. The thing that I constantly come back to and was an issue last season, is that it is 2000 years later. How are they producing gasoline and stuff to make houses.Plastics? Clothes?  Those issues are what take me right out of the story every time. 

[meep.meep]

ottoDbusdriver - thanks!  I swear only half of that happened in the version that I saw.  Like this:  "Theo reunites with his wife, Rebecca, at the WP Academy, and then gets a dinner invite from Jason to the mountain."  They didn't show this scene.  I don't think I went to the bathroom that often....

Consequently, the show made even less sense than it did last year.  And I only watched it to see if it was going to be better.

[grandemocha]

14 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

Megan Fisher wheels into Kate's room and dumps on her that the rebellion is over.  And then she decides to pretend to be concerned about her pain meds and tries to inject something from a needle into Kate's IV.  Kate wisely vaults from the hospital bed and knocks Megan Fisher to the floor.  And while telling Megan that she wants no part of her new future, Kate slashes her own throat.  I guess Carla Guigino wanted out of this crapfest as well.  The best part is that she bleeds to death all over Megan Fisher.

Kate was a bad ass character and I really liked Carla Gugino so now that she's dead, I don't think there's really anything that will make me want to tune in to next week's episode. I hate Ben, crazy hypno teacher is still unfortunately alive, and the new main character seems a little bland so far. We'll see if next week is more interesting I suppose.

[thuganomics85]

So, basically it looks like that the second season is going to be mainly falling new regulars this season, and the main guys from season one will guest or cameo, I guess.  Some not for long, since Katie just took her own life.  Can't blame her.  Or Carla Gugino, if that was her choice.

Kind of found this episode slow and dull; probably because it was basically repeating the same steps with Theo that they did with Ethan, except Theo is a bit more level-handed and not as brash as Ethan was.  Jason Patric was solid enough, but I'm already rolling my eyes over how, of course, he also has a strained relationship with his wife, just like Ethan did.  Really, they should have just called him Ethan as well.

How in the hell did Megan survive?!  I'm glad Hope Davis is around to be creeping has fuck, but she should have been shredded to pieces.  Maybe even the Abbies could tell she was a horrible person, and probably would taste horribly.

Shit, they offed Ruby.  I actually kind of liked Ruby.

Kacey Rohl!  She really is everywhere now!  But she'll always be Abigail Hobbs to me, so I'm sure she'll be a psycho by the end of this season.

Ben is still dull, I see.

I'm sure Terrence Howard still got a nice check, despite that one brief scene.  When you are the star of Empire, I'm sure FOX spares no expense!

Didn't meet Djimon Hounsou's character yet, which is the main reason I'm even tuning it.  That and seeing if and how they'll work both Nurse Pam and Theresa back onto the show too.

[Free]

7 hours ago, MiseryIndex said:

i bet if they knew they'd get more than 1 season they wouldn't' have crammed all 3 books into the first.

makes me sad what could've been. book 1 ends with him becoming sheriff. which was what like 3-4 episodes in last season?

That would explain the pacing and the hindsight of revealing too much too soon, now they're left scrambling trying to rehash the story for another season.

[Accidental Martyr]

6 hours ago, riverheightsnancy said:

I watched while doing other stuff. The thing that I constantly come back to and was an issue last season, is that it is 2000 years later. How are they producing gasoline and stuff to make houses.Plastics? Clothes?  Those issues are what take me right out of the story every time. 

I have exactly the same thoughts. I think we discussed it a good bit during season 1. There's no way any of those vehicles would still work. Even the tires would have crumbled to dust. Where is the food coming from? Who made those Hitler Youth uniforms? (Those uniforms seem to be a pretty heavy-handed reference.) Where do  people get new clothes and shoes? How much ammunition do they have for all those guns?

If the 1st Gen/Gestapo kids were born in WP who are their parents? Were they from Group A or Group B?

I'm not clear on the timeline from the initial unfreezing of Group A until now. How much time passed before Group A flipped out and torched the town and Group B was unfrozen and they flipped out? That Jason kid appears to be 20ish.

[Accidental Martyr]

15 hours ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

 

Wait -- Pope recruited Theo from Hawaii. How the hell did he get him back to WP for internment all while unconscious -- by boat ? Submarine ?

.....along with Theo's wife, which we have no idea how he got to her. This means he managed to transport two unconscious people from Hawaii to Idaho to be frozen. 

How many people were kidnapped and frozen for Pilcher's project? Were Pope and Pam the only ones abducting people?

[mertensia]

I'm thinking this season might be about solving the abbie problem? Well, it would make sense.

Poor Ruby. 

[ottoDbusdriver]

4 hours ago, meep.meep said:

ottoDbusdriver - thanks!  I swear only half of that happened in the version that I saw.  Like this:  "Theo reunites with his wife, Rebecca, at the WP Academy, and then gets a dinner invite from Jason to the mountain."  They didn't show this scene.  I don't think I went to the bathroom that often....

Consequently, the show made even less sense than it did last year.  And I only watched it to see if it was going to be better.

Seriously, It really happened in the version I saw.  After Theo exits the WPA. 

Jason: "Gentlemen. The rebellion is over. We need to start fresh. I was hoping you'd come up to the mountain and share a meal with me.  Talk about the future of Wayward Pines."
Theo: "You need to tell me what's happening here. Everything."
Jason: "I will. Just get in the car doctor."

Then Theo gets in the front seat of the van that ultimately ends up outside the fence.

[meep.meep]

I believe you completely!  I couldn't figure out why what I was watching was so disjointed. Your version makes some sense. *  I'll have to watch it on Demand.

*As much sense as Wayward Pines has ever made.....do they kill every doctor they defrost these days?

[eurekagirl mOo]

On 5/26/2016 at 1:42 AM, ottoDbusdriver said:

Good thing we got a full recap of all of Season 1 to start the episode -- because it was all so forgettable the first time around.

And Ben is now committed to lead the rebellion against the 1st Generation -- oh great, he thinks he's fucking Braveheart.  And he's there to protect all of humanity including the folks still frozen in the mountain.

Wayward Pines is new and improved -- and by improved it's a military camp with trigger happy security that have to be told not to shoot people. 

And we start out with Jason Patric's character, Dr. Theo Yedlin, enjoying himself at a tropical resort with a hot wife when he "accidentally" encounters Sheriff Pope at the bar.  But instead of getting kidnapped or running into a truck, it looks like Theo kind of got the real story from Pope -- but Pope just waited until he passed out from the booze and kidnapped him.  At least it was one of the least traumatic kidnappings.

Recent rebel activity causing earlier curfews -- that's the first thing that Dr. Theo gets to hear on his drive through town.  That must seem odd, for what he thinks is still Hawaii (at this point).

After getting piled into a SUV for the drive to the hospital, they are followed by an army vehicle -- an army vehicle that conveniently disappears when Theo jumps out of the SUV, all while rebels watch from afar, only for the army vehicle to reappear later as he's running away.  We'll call it the magic jeep.

After the rebels blow up the SUV with a grenade, Theo continues running.

And there is no end of weirdness by the locals -- creepy kid bicycling on the sidewalk, guy painting his house at night, strict woman leading him around, creepy couple.

After Theo visits the random house of the creepy couple and tries to make a call from a landline from a phone sitting next to a picture of Dr. Pilcher, still confused Theo heads out and the creepy couple "call it in".

Theo wanders off the road to avoid the military and stumbles upon the local firing squad range.  Welcome to Wayward Pines !!!

Dr. Theo finally gets hauled off to the hospital and meets the new 1st Generation leader of WP, Jason.  This is the guy that we met in the penultimate episodes of Season 1, and he spins a big lie to Dr. Theo about a secret military study examining the effects of war trauma on civilians.  All while Theo can't understand why he is the only doctor and all the other doctors are dead.

Wait -- Pope recruited Theo from Hawaii. How the hell did he get him back to WP for internment all while unconscious -- by boat ? Submarine ?

And the patient with the bullet in her neck is none other than -- Kate.   Kate looks like she has been freshly shot, and considering this is at least 3 years after the events of last year, did they freeze Kate while she was injured ?  Shoot her after unthawing ?  Why would they even keep her alive in the first place ?

Dr. Theo gets to perform the operation in front of an audience -- all of them unmasked -- dressed like doctors or medical students.  Five bucks says Kate gets an infection.

Turns out 1st Genners have been dropping like flies, all courtesy of Ben and the rebels -- and Megan Fisher shows up in a wheelchair to consult with Jason on the progress with the rebels.  And even though all life is precious, they do seem to like killing people.  Ben is going mildly crazy -- you can tell just by his hair.

Meanwhile the Rebels are living in a van down by the river.  Seriously, WP is not that big how can they not be found by the military ?

Dr. Theo unpacks his "things" which consists of his clothes and personal effects from when he was on vacation in Hawaii. That's it.  After having a lovely flashback about his marital issues, Theo wanders down the hall for a lovely bottle of carbonated celery juice from a vending machine with Dr. Pilcher picture on it.  Theo hears music down the hospital hallway, he snoops on an electroshock session in progress -- and it's Arlene, the Sheriff's station receptionist, getting shocked. 

I don't get why the hospital appears to be in immaculate condition, the paint on the walls of Theo's room is peeling badly.

And we learn Theo is originally from Boston, as he attends to Kate when she wakes up.  Kate identifies Theo as 'Group C' and tests him on the cover story, and Theo discovers that Kate is handcuffed to the hospital bed, and then lead off to a hotel to meet his wife all while getting confusing answers to small talk with the driver. Downtown WP looks like a shithole under military rule.  As a bonus he has his own personal military escort.

Wait a tick -- Jason is pumping Kate for information about the rebels ?  Why did the 1st Genners even let Kate live ? Kate gives Jason the opposite of pep talk about how bad he is at preserving humanity --  he doesn't take it well.

I'm not saying the militarized 1st Genners are neo-Nazis, but they are all dressed as brown shirts. Just saying.

Wow -- Pope's little recruitment process is pretty good.  He brought an unconscious body and his luggage all the way back from Hawaii to Idaho.  Which gives us a couple more flashbacks to marital problems in Hawaii.

Dinner at the Wayward Pines Hotel kind of sucks -- it looks like a peanut butter sandwich.  I bet Theo could really go for a bison burger about now.

Theo discovers that his hotel room window is locked shut, but a friendly neighborhood rebel shows up -- in broad daylight, no less -- to pop open the window and help Theo escape.

This rebel grills Theo about Kate and whether she has spilled the beans about the rebels.  As Theo and the rebel make it to the street, it is filled with people all heading one way.  Turns out everyone is headed for what looks like a reckoning.

Jason uses the reckoning platform to talk about how this "month long" rebellion isn't the way Pilcher would have wanted it.  Hold on, so the end of last season had Ben waking up after being put back in the fridge for 3 years, so how long has Ben been defrosted in order to put things in place to mount this "month long" rebellion.  With Megan Fisher as cheerleader, Jason announces a general amnesty for anyone that comes forward.  How stupid does Jason think these rebels are ?  He has been ruling with an iron boot for over 3 years, and he expects them to stop rebelling an cooperate.

Of course, absolutely no one comes forward.  Nobody. Jason's a little pissed about this so it's time for some killing so they drag 3 people up onto the stage from a van.  I'm pretty sure that the woman that is being executed was the barista from the coffee shop from last season.

As Theo rushes to help the woman, Ruby, that was just executed, Theo's wife spots him and calls out his name.  Just as Ben and two rebels show up and announce to Jason that they will surrender if they stop the killing.

With the rebels surrender, all rebel sympathizers are rounded up -- you know, for safety purposes -- and probably all shot.  Can't let that firing squad range go to waste.

Theo reunites with his wife, Rebecca, at the WP Academy, and then gets a dinner invite from Jason to the mountain.

Jason wants to keep Theo around to teach a new crop of doctors, but Kerry thinks it's a mistake.  Jason doesn't want another Ethan Burke.

The rebel that busted out Theo from the hotel, ends up in the back of a van with Ben.  Something is going on there -- I think he's a double agent maybe.

Megan Fisher wheels into Kate's room and dumps on her that the rebellion is over.  And then she decides to pretend to be concerned about her pain meds and tries to inject something from a needle into Kate's IV.  Kate wisely vaults from the hospital bed and knocks Megan Fisher to the floor.  And while telling Megan that she wants no part of her new future, Kate slashes her own throat.  I guess Carla Guigino wanted out of this crapfest as well.  The best part is that she bleeds to death all over Megan Fisher.

And we get our first shot of the fence this season -- I guess all the holes are plugged up and the power is back on.

The military driver of the van opens the fence, knocks out Theo in the front passenger seat, gets out of the van, puts a rock on the gas pedal, and the truck drives out into the beyond with Theo in the front seat of the truck, and Ben and redshirt rebel in the back.

And then all of the phones in WP start ringing in the middle of the night -- I think it's Jason calling everyone to find out why Theo is late for dinner at the mountain.

The camera pans into Kate's hospital room and pulls back to show bloody wheelchair marks leaving the room and going down the hallway.  We never did get an explanation as to how Megan Fisher survived that Abbie attack with only paralysis of her legs.

And the episode ends with Theo waking up and getting his first up close glimpse of an Abbie through the truck windshield.  Followed by hundreds of Abbies heading past the truck towards the fence and attacking the gate in the fence -- why would they electrocute themselves when there is a perfectly good manwich inside the truck ?  How will Theo And Ben and redshirt rebel ever get out of this predicament ?

Could you, pretty please, recap this every week? You are so funny I burst out laughing! And you made some sense of this trainwreck...or, pointed out the lack of sense.

I skipped Million Dollar Listing for this. Won't happen again.....I'll catch it on demand......when I'm really bored..

[roctavia]

At the end, the Abbies sacrificed a bunch to make a pile at the wall so they could climb over... It took like 10 seconds, why aren't they doing that all the time? They know there are people inside the wall. Why attack the wall just because a truck crashed outside it?

Edited May 28, 2016 by roctavia

[juliet73]

5 hours ago, eurekagirl mOo said:

Could you, pretty please, recap this every week? You are so funny I burst out laughing! And you made some sense of this trainwreck...or, pointed out the lack of sense.

 

 

I agree!!! He is so funny! He did hilarious recaps for CSI:Cyber too.  I hated that show sooo much, but only watched it so I could read OttoD's recap!

[ottoDbusdriver]

5 hours ago, eurekagirl mOo said:

Could you, pretty please, recap this every week? You are so funny I burst out laughing! And you made some sense of this trainwreck...or, pointed out the lack of sense.

I skipped Million Dollar Listing for this. Won't happen again.....I'll catch it on demand......when I'm really bored..

 

10 minutes ago, juliet73 said:

 

I agree!!! He is so funny! He did hilarious recaps for CSI:Cyber too.  I hated that show sooo much, but only watched it so I could read OttoD's recap!

Will do.

This show makes it so easy --  at least last year they had the source material to rely on (which was pretty bad).
This season is brand new made up schlock by the writing staff -- it can only go downhill from here.  I still have no idea why this was renewed.

[SpaghettiTuesdays]

I thought I missed a few episodes but nope, this was the first. I have no idea what's going on with this show. I agree with PP - the writers must've scrambled to come up with a new storyline. I wouldn't mind delving into the workings of the smallfolk of the town (the guy painting his house, creepy couple, random other people). I'm hoping they work in Ethan's badass climb into the mountain like in the books, but this time it's Ben and his friend Theo. Ooh!!! Maybe Theo is there to be the new "God" and take over Pilcher's place!!! I just figured out the whole show.

Sorry my thoughts are so jumbled. But I guess  that's fitting and much like the show. ;)

[eurekagirl mOo]

OttoBbusdriver.......i think  I love you! Thank You SO much......someone,somewhere needs to hire you to write recaps ala Ronnie K at Trashtalk. His housewives recaps are loved by all on that board. Looking forward to reading you.

[Free]

12 hours ago, SpaghettiTuesdays said:

I thought I missed a few episodes but nope, this was the first. I have no idea what's going on with this show. I agree with PP - the writers must've scrambled to come up with a new storyline. I wouldn't mind delving into the workings of the smallfolk of the town (the guy painting his house, creepy couple, random other people). I'm hoping they work in Ethan's badass climb into the mountain like in the books, but this time it's Ben and his friend Theo. Ooh!!! Maybe Theo is there to be the new "God" and take over Pilcher's place!!! I just figured out the whole show.

Sorry my thoughts are so jumbled. But I guess  that's fitting and much like the show. ;)

Oh it did, they burned through all 3 books last season and it was meant to be a 1 season thing before they brought it back and scrambled for some material this season.

[pezgirl7]

Can someone tell me if the second episode is any better than the first? The first was so boring and disjointed, and none of the characters' actions made any sense. Theo wasn't asking enough questions, and when he sees his wife, he hardly shows any emotion. Kate prevents herself from having a painless death just to slit her own throat? And she could have taken out Megan, but decides not to. This episode had no mystery. We know what is going on the town, but I feel like they could have done a better job at showing what it was like from Theo's perspective which would have made it more interesting.

[KaveDweller]

4 hours ago, pezgirl7 said:

Can someone tell me if the second episode is any better than the first? 

No, it was equally bad. 

[Milburn Stone]

We enjoyed all of Season 1 (flaws and all), and were looking forward to Season 2. After watching the first episode, we're out. It's like they put a catheter in the show and drained all the intrigue out of it.