And they did a good job of wrapping all that into a package that kept me hooked and engaged. You can tell that there's something wrong, that something doesn't add up, but you can't tell what. This show, that could be categorized as a slow burn, has only 6 episodes. It has suspense, mystery, supernatural elements, all sorts of twists and turns. I was loving this show until episode five when the hocus pocus took front and center and nobody behaved sensibly. God, I really hate the body switch trope. WHERE SHE COULDN'T HAVE HELPED ANYWAY!!!!Īnd Rob/Adele pulls off the body switch again. Instead of calling the cops like any sane person would do, Louise astral projects over. And David when he tries to warn Louise about Adele keeps acting like an asshole and his warning about her comes out more like a threat from him.īut I cried BS the most when Adele contacts Louise and tells her she is going to kill herself. Then David, who is really the good guy has to act like a damned asshole to Louise so she sympathizes with "Adele." And even when Adele and David are alone they speak cryptically about the past instead of just coming out and saying stuff. Then he in Adele's body has to somehow convince Louise, David's mistress to be friends with him so he can teach her astral projection so he can switch bodies with her. Then he has to convince David to dispose of the body and hide it instead of calling the cops. Then he has to hope that Adele stupidly goes into his almost overdosed body before his old body dies. Rob meets Adele's fiance and after one day decides he loves him so much that he's willing to switch bodies with Adele and kill his old body. Great acting, but way too much implausible behavior. When they brought in the hokey magic, I just cringed and hoped it wouldn't end the way I feared. I honestly liked it better as a straight psychological thriller. Rather than have the characters behave logically, the characters had to reach that twist ending which wasn't that much of a twist, because it was pretty much telegraphed in episode 5. I think the whole problem with this series is that the ending was going to happen come hell or high water. Suspend your disbelief is what I say to that - if you can. You'll either embrace it - or it will completely take you out of it - "non-realistic" and all that. And then there is this other element to it. Not to mention to figure certain dynamics out. I think a lot of the viewers will be able to guess that there is more to the story early on though. well something completely different at first. There are a lot of red herrings thrown into the mix and the story seems to revolve around one thing more than. The acting is good, the story is working. and another one we do not get or suspect from the start. Having said all that, the build up is quite nice and it really brings you closer to everyone. actually hoping for or planning for something to happen the exact way it does is rather. So for the ending to happen as it does, a lot of things have to come together that are almost. Now you have to be the judge of that ultimately - I can only give you pointers and tell you my perspective on it. The question with this movie: is the whole build up worth what it culminates to? The ending, the twist of sorts. But in that case this story would not have this kind of plot twist, so she had to be THAT stupid I guess. Louise might love David and might want to save him, but nothing in this world can be compared with a mother's love for her children, so she would know that she is not a superhero and she is not suitable for risking her life to save other people from their sociopath spouses. It's not because they scare to die, it is because they scare what their little children would do if they die. Mothers do not risk their lives for the people they know only for the last 1 month. Louise can be stupid enough to think she can save a person in astral travel, but she cannot be stupid enough to get herself into trouble, because she is a MOTHER. But I think there is one more wrong thing about this story and it is worth mentioning. What can people do in astral travel? They can only watch things, they cannot speak to people or anything, so why would she do that? Trying to find a window to break and enter the house would be MUCH more reasonable but for some reason Louise decides to do the most illogical thing on earth. I understand how Adele and Rob changed their bodies, they both knew what they were doing and they both did it on purpose but I really don't understand what was Louise's motivation when she left her body while Adele were "comitting" suicide. However, that ending is illogical for me. This show has a great plot twist at the end and I think that is what makes it shine.
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