Something's Changed
- Episode aired Aug 23, 2023
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
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Mitsuki is taken to an alien ship in the Amazon jungle. Aneesha and her children take refuge with a group called the Movement.Mitsuki is taken to an alien ship in the Amazon jungle. Aneesha and her children take refuge with a group called the Movement.Mitsuki is taken to an alien ship in the Amazon jungle. Aneesha and her children take refuge with a group called the Movement.
Shamier Anderson
- Trevante Cole
- (credit only)
India Brown
- Jamila Huston
- (credit only)
Paddy Holland
- Montgomery 'Monty' Cuttermill
- (credit only)
Nedra Marie Taylor
- Rose Callaway
- (credit only)
Storyline
Featured review
Not much has changed, but it's an improvement.
Much of the criticism of the first series was the drawn out drip-feeding of 10 episodes where nothing much happened except script errors and plot holes. And so, the last episode of the first series was actually the beginning of the story, "A New Dawn" they called it and left us hanging yet again.
Now that the second series is here, have we gotten the new dawn, not quite. It is better, with more action and special effects, set-pieces etc. But, they had established a rythym and tenor of story-type in the first series that is hard to escape to be frank. And so, we're faced with some more boring time fillers as our hapless little family scrape around to survive and get arrested etc. All very boring and pointless padding.
And, as a first episode of a new season you'd expect it to be full of captivation and hook people into the rest of the series, so it's annoying that they couldn't get away from their established pattern of rationed writing and direction for even the first episode. Annoying but hardly surprising given what went before.
The good parts were the slight pushing ahead with the story, but we're yet again seeing this unfold at a micro level, through disparate stories, rather than the macro view they left us with at the end of the first series ... Remember the huge spacecraft luring through the atmosphere? ... hardly mentioned at all.
We're instead led on a trip to the Amazon where the first mothership was downed by the power of a boy's mind alone(eye roll) and are introduced to megalomaniac billionaire, Kapoor (modelled on, take your pick of well known rich egoists) played by a British actor who for some reason seems to talk to everyone as if they're a newborn puppy and he seems to suffer from a kind of inflection-tourettes as his delivery places inflection and emphasis in all the wrong places, while he cajoles in an insipid, chidish way. This character doesn't work and is irritating beyond the patience of anyone reasonable or sane.
At the end of the first episode, we're left with not much more knowledge than we had at the end of the first series so their title "Something's Changed" seems oddly innacurate when precious little has actually changed.
It's a bit better, but as an introduction to the second season, this first episode doesn't hold much promise that the second season will correct the huge amount of negativity which the drip-feeding, padded first series evoked. [Update: It seems that Episode 2 has confirmed that suspicion and is a big nosedive compared to Episode 1.]
Let's hope we won't see people tearing their hair out after 5 episodes again, wondering why nothing much has happened.
Now that the second series is here, have we gotten the new dawn, not quite. It is better, with more action and special effects, set-pieces etc. But, they had established a rythym and tenor of story-type in the first series that is hard to escape to be frank. And so, we're faced with some more boring time fillers as our hapless little family scrape around to survive and get arrested etc. All very boring and pointless padding.
And, as a first episode of a new season you'd expect it to be full of captivation and hook people into the rest of the series, so it's annoying that they couldn't get away from their established pattern of rationed writing and direction for even the first episode. Annoying but hardly surprising given what went before.
The good parts were the slight pushing ahead with the story, but we're yet again seeing this unfold at a micro level, through disparate stories, rather than the macro view they left us with at the end of the first series ... Remember the huge spacecraft luring through the atmosphere? ... hardly mentioned at all.
We're instead led on a trip to the Amazon where the first mothership was downed by the power of a boy's mind alone(eye roll) and are introduced to megalomaniac billionaire, Kapoor (modelled on, take your pick of well known rich egoists) played by a British actor who for some reason seems to talk to everyone as if they're a newborn puppy and he seems to suffer from a kind of inflection-tourettes as his delivery places inflection and emphasis in all the wrong places, while he cajoles in an insipid, chidish way. This character doesn't work and is irritating beyond the patience of anyone reasonable or sane.
At the end of the first episode, we're left with not much more knowledge than we had at the end of the first series so their title "Something's Changed" seems oddly innacurate when precious little has actually changed.
It's a bit better, but as an introduction to the second season, this first episode doesn't hold much promise that the second season will correct the huge amount of negativity which the drip-feeding, padded first series evoked. [Update: It seems that Episode 2 has confirmed that suspicion and is a big nosedive compared to Episode 1.]
Let's hope we won't see people tearing their hair out after 5 episodes again, wondering why nothing much has happened.
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- Aug 26, 2023
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