Josh Futturman is a Janitor by day and a Gamer by night. His seemingly boring and streamlined life is upset when he becomes the first person to complete a game dubbed "unbeatable" by all. Upon completing the game, he is visited by strangers from the future who claim that he is the "Saviour". The one on whose shoulders the fate of the world lies.
If you are one for the posters, or one for the synopsis of tvshows, please get ready to be wowed with so much irritation. In the first instance the show is characterised by an amazingly flat storyline, it's so cliche we thought to ourselves why waste the data in the first place. At some point I wanted to tell myself, I told you so.
Why is this show so bad you may want to ask; well it's simple, the acting was poor, the storyline was basic, the conflict seemed a tad too remote from the characters. It felt as though the world war was happening on Earth while the actors and the supposed saviour were somewhere on Mars. To completely ruin it all was the acting. The characters' portrayal of character was very much flawed, they all seemed to try too hard to be comic. At some point we felt we were laughing, not at any perceived jokes but rather at how hard they appeared to try to sound funny. We were disappointed!
Another reason it was so poor was from the obvious fact that this was a show that was supposed to be an adult comedy. In the end what we got was a cross between a comedy, a sci-fi and a family drama, all crammed into 30 minute episodes of a 13 episode first season.
We have all watched sci-fi TV shows based on or involving plot theme elements involving time travel, and we have so followed such shows that we know what the basic rules of time travel are. Josh Futturman kept mentioning time travel 101 while at the same time breaching all the known rules of time travel, with seemingly no serious repercussions on the timeline or the space-time continuum. We were astonishingly disappointed.
Of all things to do, the Supposed saviours never mentioned how the cure to herpes created the villains who were in the first instance referred to alien forms and then later revealed to be humans who had marred flesh covering their faces. In trying to be too smart, the creators of the show proved themselves too dumb for the viewers.
Whereas we may have expected that Elias Kronish would have been the first point of Call for the resistance upon coming into possession of the TTD, they came for the saviour. I mean why not just go and kill the young Kronish and be done with the conflict? Stupid!
I think unless I am an alien life form from a planet other than earth, I won't react to everything in 2017 the way Wolf and Tiger did, I mean it's just absurd to react that way just because they are supposedly from the future. It's the past, not another planet. In fact it would have been more convincing if someone from the past reacted that way to things in the future.
And why refer to their mouths as Rat hole because supposedly the future is so bad rats are the only things they eat, yea? It sounds so absurd and inherently stupid to change the nomenclature to what it is used for. Come on, in 2017 we don't refer to our mouths as food holes, no? Plus whoever said 2045 will even be so bad, and it'd be a post war period! That idea has been sold so many times that it now sounds a little too non-creative.
I will go back to character portrayal, and general acting once again. It looked too forced. Wolf and Tiger( Derek Wilson and Eliza Coupe) definitely deserved better. They are capable of much more, you can see Derek Wilson 's performance in AmC's Preacher; he was absolutely brilliant. Maybe this is a classic example of poor script writing being the bane of good actors ( believe me, brilliant actors will turn it around). Josh Hutcherson ( Josh Futturman) on the other hand seemed to have his character portrayal down to the letter. We must still however say that the script writing took his character performance down a notch, and suddenly we dropped from impressed to not so convinced.
One thing we absolutely did enjoy is the season finale. I think we finally had an episode that delivered in aces with humour, action and the right emotional spice ( with Elias Kronish). It was brilliant. However, can a single good episode save a tvshow that continually disappointed viewers for 12 episodes? We think not.
Executive Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, one would have expected a marvel of a tv show, considering the pedigree of the production crew.
We feel hard pressed and crestfallen to admit or rather to state emphatically that Hulu has backed a dead horse with this one. I don't know what advice I can offer to Hulu, whether to employ their own creation the TTD( time travel device) and go back in time to prevent this show from ever happening, or maybe go to the future find better directors for it and return for a remake. This show absolutely can't be saved in the present timeline, maybe somewhere else in the multiverse? Lol you wish!
On a personal note, if I had a TTD, I would go back in time, slap myself twice for attempting to download this show! Disheartening.
To our readers, nah stay away from this one, unless u have free time and absolutely free data to waste. Hey you better put your data to good use and forget about this one.
FCA's AppR : 5/10.
It's a solid 5/10 for the very first time. This is a show to stay away from. Period!!
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