I enjoyed season one and I applaud the producers for choosing the anthology format, so each new season has a fictional horror story in a different historical setting. I believe it's the right call.
The setting is interesting; instead of a 19th century arctic expedition we have Japanese-American internment camps during World War 2; instead of monsters, we have ghosts. That said, I wasn't crazy about this first episode. Production values are once again solid but I have issues with the pacing, which felt too slow, and with the writing.
You know when I started to be worried ? When a character is walking on a street in broad daylight and the ghostly force/curse attacks him with gruesome results, as bystanders watch in horrified impotence. If there are no rules or limits to what the supernatural threat can do and anything goes, far from being creepier, it becomes a recipe for tedium.
Let's hope this gets better in the next episodes.
5,5/10
The setting is interesting; instead of a 19th century arctic expedition we have Japanese-American internment camps during World War 2; instead of monsters, we have ghosts. That said, I wasn't crazy about this first episode. Production values are once again solid but I have issues with the pacing, which felt too slow, and with the writing.
You know when I started to be worried ? When a character is walking on a street in broad daylight and the ghostly force/curse attacks him with gruesome results, as bystanders watch in horrified impotence. If there are no rules or limits to what the supernatural threat can do and anything goes, far from being creepier, it becomes a recipe for tedium.
Let's hope this gets better in the next episodes.
5,5/10
