Abob Teff

Synopsis: From Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.

Starring: Adrian Pasdar, an unrecognizable Sharon Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy, Arielle Kebbel (nude scene alert!), and mostly character actors.

My synopsis (mild spoilers): YAAS - Yet Another Apocalypse Show.

Has anybody else checked this out? I hesitated on watching until I knew if they were going to pick it up. I bit on the hook though ...

I am hoping this gets picked up! The pilot had its ups and downs, but the story and characters have me intrigued.

The good: In spots the production values and special effects are really good. Carter works the claustrophobic spaces rather well in the "more confined" scenes. The actors are an intriguing bunch. The story has me clamoring to know more -- it's Chris Carter for crying out loud!

The bad: The characters are stereotypes. The larger-scale scenes show the lower end of the production values. Some character actions (mostly the extras) seem unmotivated by reason and logic (a DVDTalk pet-peeve).

End judgment: I WANT TO BELIEVE ... this will get picked up and will be good. I was an avid X-Files watcher until I finally got fed up with too many mysteries being pounded into the story with no answers to be found anywhere. This could easily happen again in The After; but I would rather get frustrated than never know where this was headed.

Axeramm

I liked it enough to watch more but the French accent got old quick.

majorjoe23

Nevermind, wrong thread.

Tom Banjo

I liked the pilot. I would watch if more were made. Especially if Kebbel keeps showing off them titties.

Btw- there's already been some discussion on this in the streaming forum.

Abob Teff

I tried a search but came up empty. Apparently the words "the" and "after" are too short and too common.

I didn't follow this whole Amazon Originals thing the first time they did it. When is Amazon supposed to announce which series will be made? About how long till the series actually hits?

DJariya

30 day test.

Sometime in March they will announce which series will be picked up. Most likely they will be filmed over the summer and premiere in the Fall.

Abob Teff

I guess if it doesn't get picked up I will just chalk it up with X-Files. I never did finish it.

Pointyskull

Sure the characters were annoyingly one-note and stock, but I liked it.

Deftones

Looks like this will be greenlit into series: http://variety.com/2014/digital/news...ve-1201129456/

Easy

Sorry to hear it. This is one I absolutely hated. Fucking Chris Carter and his "clues" and "symbols" and other hints and bullshit that turn out to amount to absolutely nothing. No thanks.

ATX

so...

its almost june, what ever happened with this? the pilot is still up but nothing else

Shannon Nutt

It just got greenlit a few months ago...they have to go off and shoot the episodes now, and Amazon will probably follow Netflix's lead and release them all at once. So don't look for anything before fall or even winter.

dex14

Amazon Studios Scraps Series Order for Chris Carter’s ‘The After’:

http://variety.com/2015/digital/news...ve-1201392623/

Goldberg74

Aw man, I kinda liked that pilot. The hint of cool mythology at the end was something to look forward too.

Flatlander

With the episodes already ordered and actors locked up, could a SyFy or another distributor pick it up? Not thinking it will happen but wondered how that works.

PhantomStranger

Yes, if the producers really wanted to keep it going. Amazon would make some percentage on the back end, even if it landed at another place.

Coladar1

What the f***?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!? (An SE Vader "Nooooooooooooooo!")

Are you ****ing kidding me?

Damn it. I was all set to post joyously, saying how incredibly bizarre this bump was: I *just* yesterday...*just last night*, not even 12 hours prior... had Googled this again to see if a release date had yet been made. Furthermore, I actually even discussed it a few hours earlier yesterday with the couple folks I had recommended it to, as well.

I watched the pilot immediately after the series pick up order was announced (not willing to get utterly screwed anew with another one and done, dangling cliffhanger nonsense - I still smart from things like Carnivale a decade later, one of my all-time faves.) and simply *loved* it. I'm a huge fan of Carter's, good and the bad, and this show was pure Chris Carter bliss. It was equal parts Hex (Brit show), Walking Dead, Last of Us (Game) mixed in with Carter's normal brilliance and plot devices, characterization and tropes.

The last ten minutes was just... freaking insane. That chase in the woods... what the hell was going on? (Possibly literally Hell, to boot. Oh, except we'll never know now.)

I thought to myself, "Self, if this only gets one episode, I'm going to lose my mind having all this lingering forever unanswered."

Every month since, I always make sure to Google for a release date - making the timing of this bump especially bizarre.

So what the freak? Absent normal TV concerns and ratings and the like, what the Hell possessed Amazon to even do this? This really pisses me off. Sorry, but for me, the rest of Amazon's original Prime content slate is garbage. I've had *more* than enough of this recent trend of stupidity with "oh so witty, quirky and strange critic darling comedies" or "intense, provocative and edgy drama" (ala House of Cards or Mad Men; HBO's lineup or Scandal/SR's various works!) to make me want to vomit. However heralded they might be for originality, bottom dollar is that it's a formulaic effort where everyone in Hollywood seems obsessed with mirroring a certain recipe of mature, "critical darling" efforts like those from AMC, HBO or Netflix.

This pilot was the *only* original content I've ever deigned to watch myself on Amazon Prime... I'll give anything that's actually original a chance, seeing as how I'm a massive fanboy of assorted horror, sci-fi and supernatural based fiction.

But right now I'm feeling scared for one other show: Alongside this series, I also search for news on Crackle's Chosen, Season 4. There ain't been much updating on that front for months, either - despite a commitment of picking up another season of that series almost a year ago. Now I wait for something like this to befall Chosen, too. Ugh. Wonderful start to a Monday - never mind a brand new year.

If I didn't have/get Prime only for the Amazon shipping discount aspect (Having signed up the very first week it was offered, and never looking back since with near instant free shipping on all of Amazon), this would almost certainly be enough to make me cancel and write them a very, very long letter explaining why. God, you can't even feel safe watching something after it's been picked up/renewed anymore! I guess you just need to wait until the series finale, then binge watch as long as you've read the show concluded satisfactorily

PhantomStranger

The streaming services are making very tentative efforts to produce original content. Unless something hits or becomes noteworthy almost immediately, I wouldn't get too attached to any of them.

DJariya

Just a guess, but I think the only way Amazon would have nixed shooting additional episodes was not being able to agree on a budget. Unlikely, but maybe another scenario was that Amazon hated the scripts that Carter was turning in for production.

Bosch, the other new Amazon show that was greenlit, shot their entire 10 episode season over the summer.

Tom Banjo

This sucks, but mainly because I wanted more Arielle Kebbel nudity.

Gunde

She'll be in "Ballers" on HBO, so I guess there's still hope