The original post: /r/television by /u/throwanon31 on 2025-02-19 06:21:26.
I really loved the first season. But the more spiritual, voodoo, supernatural it got, the less I enjoyed it. There were some supernatural scenes in the first season, but it was mostly grounded in reality, which is so much more horrifying and interesting than the corny culty “the wilderness is speaking to us” crap in my opinion. Lost already did that. Why can’t we just watch these people survive (or not survive)? There is more than enough drama and story, especially since there are multiple timelines and so many characters. The starvation, exposure, desperation, alliances, pregnancy, isolation, romances, hunting, friendships, injuries, deaths, cannibalism - all of the psychological and physiological impacts. Instead the main focus is corny chanting, rituals, sacrifices, cults, magic, birds falling from the sky, and talking to the wilderness. There’s already so much tension. It kinda takes me out of it and cheapens it a bit.