Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

I may be wrong but didn't her fortune say "kill your neighbor" in the first ep. and "kill Sam" (I think that's his name) in this ep.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Her fortune from episode 1 said "Kill Your Neighbor and You'll Go Free." However, I think someone put another fortune in her room with the gun that said "Kill Joe and You will go free"

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Here is the shot from episode 1:
http://www.imageuploads.net/ims/pic....5CzSC&i=185921

Here is the shot from episode 2, 3:09 in:
http://www.imageuploads.net/ims/pic....5CzSC&i=185922

You are thinking about the NEW fortune that was left with the gun she found in her room which said kill Joe.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

liked the 2nd episode better than the 1st... I'm probably in until the end.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Nice of the show to let us know torture NEVER works.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

The writing on this show continues to be simply awful. It is so amateurish I'm left to wonder if there isn't a nepotistic reason this show made it to air. The dialogue is some of the worst I've ever heard outside of first year screenwriting classes and either the ridiculous continuity errors are purposeful and will be explained later, or they simply don't care and ran out of money (it is nothing more than a summer replacement anyway.) The characters are as thin and one dimensional as a business card and bordering on pure stereotype. Moira is the "expositional character" who turns out to be a mental patient, but is able to perform deep muscle tissue extraction with a swiss army knife, no anesthesia and no sanitization. Oh, and they're able to run afterwards... -ohbfrank-

I'll give it one more episode but if the writing doesn't get any better (and I hold no hopes that it will) then I am out. Life's too short to watch shitty TV.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

I don't think anyone here believes this is good writing or acting (I hope), but the puzzles are kind of fun and it's a summer guilty pleasure. This is the kind of show that is so bad, it can get away with the unexpected and I am tired of formulas.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

I agree completely. This show isn't going to win any awards but it's entertaining enough to watch during the summer.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

yup to everything ^^^ said up there....

we're in it till the end, too much damn fun not to be....

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

How this show made air:

1) The creator and Producer (Chris McQuarrie) is an Academy Award Winning Screenwriter.
2) It's a co-production with FOX and Televisa Mexico meaning it was shot entirely on location in Mexico using local Mexican production crews saving millions on production costs.
3) The cast is mostly B actors (Jason Wiles and Alan Ruck are probably the best known of the cast) again saving lots of $$$ in costs.
4) NBC paid a very small licensing fee to FOX to air it.

I agree with your assessment about Moira and the removal of the implants. But, I'm not watching this looking for reasons to hate it. I've been entertained through 2 episodes. Harper's Island, which was a similar 1 and done show was entertaining even though alot of people complained about the acting too. Your comment about the dialogue is really subjective. I haven't noticed anything that was really stiff or unnatural sounding. I think it's already tough for a TV writer to create stuff that someone would actually say in real life in order for it to work in the plot. Most of the shows that I watch that have better production value than this, I always ask myself if someone would actually speak that way in a normal conversation and probably 9 times out of 10 I would say no.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

Which is why I was looking forward to it. I love Chris McQuarrie's stuff and I think he's a very talented writer. This is why I'm both surprised and saddened by the amateurish plot turns and dialogue.

I'm really hoping they have something really nifty in store to justify what's happened so far. I want to like it, but so far the crappiness is drawing me out of the story.

Re: Persons Unknown -- "The Edge" -- 06/14/10
 

as long as it finishes, the ratings for Monday's ep were abysmal at best.