(Episodes 1 to 4)
There is no story here, there are no interesting characters.
This series is utterly forgettable, so forgettable in fact that even after four episodes I find it hard to remember any of the characters' names. A problem amplified by the fact that there are too many characters to begin with. The 'plot' jumps between three groups with several characters each, who all have the same problem, being stuck inside, making it even harder to connect with the already bland, one-note characters.
Every episode seems to follow the same thin line of events: People stuck are inside a building, too afraid to go outside and then something horrible happens that kills one or two characters off - and that's it.
The fact that even by the middle of the fourth episode not a single monster has appeared is downright insulting to the viewer. All you see up to that point are insects and the few 'bigger' special effects, who were utilized so haphazardly they actually broke the little bit of 'suspension of disbelief' I had to offer.
Then, when they actually show a creature, it is (I kid you not) a smoke monster. Fittingly this series feels like a bad copy of "Lost". Nothing in this series seems to have any rhyme or reason to it. The writers seemed to have made up stuff as they went along, while they filled the rest of the script with painfully boring interlude.
The characters are bland and behave like idiots - except the two potheads who actually have a good idea, but are the only ones portrait as idiots.
Translate the German word "Mist" into English and you got what this series is.
There is no story here, there are no interesting characters.
This series is utterly forgettable, so forgettable in fact that even after four episodes I find it hard to remember any of the characters' names. A problem amplified by the fact that there are too many characters to begin with. The 'plot' jumps between three groups with several characters each, who all have the same problem, being stuck inside, making it even harder to connect with the already bland, one-note characters.
Every episode seems to follow the same thin line of events: People stuck are inside a building, too afraid to go outside and then something horrible happens that kills one or two characters off - and that's it.
The fact that even by the middle of the fourth episode not a single monster has appeared is downright insulting to the viewer. All you see up to that point are insects and the few 'bigger' special effects, who were utilized so haphazardly they actually broke the little bit of 'suspension of disbelief' I had to offer.
Then, when they actually show a creature, it is (I kid you not) a smoke monster. Fittingly this series feels like a bad copy of "Lost". Nothing in this series seems to have any rhyme or reason to it. The writers seemed to have made up stuff as they went along, while they filled the rest of the script with painfully boring interlude.
The characters are bland and behave like idiots - except the two potheads who actually have a good idea, but are the only ones portrait as idiots.
Translate the German word "Mist" into English and you got what this series is.
