This show... yikes. We follow an alcoholic, workaholic lawyer named Liv as she tries to survive following a plane crash, and wrestles with her own inner demons along the way. The thing is, you kind of end up rooting for her to die after a certain point. She's wholly insufferable. The worst trauma she's had in her life was that mommy had a pretty mild mental illness and ended up leaving her and her dad. The worst thing I can remember her mom doing was forgetting to pick her up once. As a result Liv becomes a narcissistic, abusive person, who takes everyone and everything around her for granted. She has a super privileged life and a wonderful father, and she just craps all over it every chance she can get. The ONLY time she's somewhat decent to her father is when he's on his deathbed, and even then, she makes it entirely about herself. She even avoids going to see him as he's dying, choosing work over supporting him in his final days, despite him devoting his life to making hers better. She yells at her assistant for even suggesting she leave work to go see him, stating that he has a nurse with him so why should she be there. It's painful to watch. She gets setup with a guy at work and she's completely emotionally abusive towards him. Not sure at all why this guy keeps trying with her and doesn't take the hint to eff off. She does give him very mixed signals so I kinda get it. She ends up pregnant through this affair, and spends two whole episodes wondering if she would be a good mother. She hallucinates a bunch of people telling her she would be a good mom, despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary. She's abusive, loves to fight, won't let anyone get close to her, works 80 hours a week, doesn't cook meals, she drinks her dinner every night to the point her alcoholism almost kills her, and can only focus on her own self-pity 100% of the time, even as she's dying. She would be a HORRIBLE mother, which isn't surprising given her mommy-issues. Lots of people have extremely horrible parents and manage to not be awful people, but she just can't. She's too wrapped up in herself in all the wrong ways. Even through all her flashbacks and hallucinations, she never actually redeems herself or shows any remorse for how she treated everyone around her. It's just a never-ending, 'Oh, woe is me. However will I get back to my life that I hate?' Seriously, all her hallucinations really do are stroke her ego the entire time, and she can't even muster an apology to them, which means it's very unlikely she would ever do so in real life. If you can't show remorse for your actions as you're struggling to survive, you aren't ever going to.
Then if we get into the survival aspect, this part is just laughable. She makes a couple decent decisions, like diving back into the plane for supplies, and making a compass, but most of what she does is beyond idiotic. She squanders and misuses her limited resources the entire time. She suffers injuries that are played out totally unrealistically, like getting pinned under a rock for an entire episode, but when she finally frees herself she only has a concussion, with no symptoms, even though the entire bottom half of her body was pinned under a massive boulder that fell down twenty feet on top of her. Her leg would have been crushed and she would have massive internal bleeding. Despite that, she decides to leave behind the pain killers she had with her, because she realizes she doesn't need to overdose as a way out. Really? That was your only option? You couldn't use them responsibly to get yourself out of a life-threatening situation and back into civilization? Eventually she remembers that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but she only remembers that on like episode 5 or 6. How she made it through law school on such limited brain capacity is beyond me. Eventually she has this brilliant (sarcasm) idea that she should just jump in the river and try to float her way to civilization. She somehow misses every rapid, despite this being a raging river and having a broken leg and rib from the cliff she fell off. Even after she loses the log she was using for buoyancy, she somehow still floats the entire way and doesn't drown. Then some fishermen spot her and pull her out and she comes to. We see flashes of her having her baby in the future. Gosh, I feel sorry for that kid....
The whole show is just stupid, and pointless, and I'm not sure why I didn't just turn it off. I honestly wish she had died, because then there would have at least been one satisfying part. I'm giving it 2 stars because the camera-work, scenery, and acting were all pretty good. That's being very generous though and overlooking a lot.
Then if we get into the survival aspect, this part is just laughable. She makes a couple decent decisions, like diving back into the plane for supplies, and making a compass, but most of what she does is beyond idiotic. She squanders and misuses her limited resources the entire time. She suffers injuries that are played out totally unrealistically, like getting pinned under a rock for an entire episode, but when she finally frees herself she only has a concussion, with no symptoms, even though the entire bottom half of her body was pinned under a massive boulder that fell down twenty feet on top of her. Her leg would have been crushed and she would have massive internal bleeding. Despite that, she decides to leave behind the pain killers she had with her, because she realizes she doesn't need to overdose as a way out. Really? That was your only option? You couldn't use them responsibly to get yourself out of a life-threatening situation and back into civilization? Eventually she remembers that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but she only remembers that on like episode 5 or 6. How she made it through law school on such limited brain capacity is beyond me. Eventually she has this brilliant (sarcasm) idea that she should just jump in the river and try to float her way to civilization. She somehow misses every rapid, despite this being a raging river and having a broken leg and rib from the cliff she fell off. Even after she loses the log she was using for buoyancy, she somehow still floats the entire way and doesn't drown. Then some fishermen spot her and pull her out and she comes to. We see flashes of her having her baby in the future. Gosh, I feel sorry for that kid....
The whole show is just stupid, and pointless, and I'm not sure why I didn't just turn it off. I honestly wish she had died, because then there would have at least been one satisfying part. I'm giving it 2 stars because the camera-work, scenery, and acting were all pretty good. That's being very generous though and overlooking a lot.