I kept wishing it would get better, but sadly, it never did. :-[
Great concept - sloppily executed. It was so bad near the end of Season 1 that they were jumping back and forth in time to do 30-second scenes, over and over again. Seriously? You couldn't string together more than one scene, in one plot point, with at least one other one, to spend at least one minute, in one year, before jumping again?
It was as if the writers (if there were any) were in the writing room on the day of filming saying, "I know! First Cole does this, then he goes back and does that..." and then decided to film it just like that an hour later.
They trusted the audience to stitch together some supposedly complex plot points (I say supposedly because at times we would be spoon-fed, while at others we would be left saying, "Huh?"), but we couldn't be trusted to realize that they were jumping back and forth between times when switching scenes? Perhaps if it weren't for this ongoing insult, I would be watching Season 2.
When every scene of an episode has "YEAR: XXXX" preceding of it, you know you're being treated like a child. Nothing says you don't trust your audience more than telling them what you're going to show them, just before you show them - as it they're not capable of getting it.
Great concept - sloppily executed. It was so bad near the end of Season 1 that they were jumping back and forth in time to do 30-second scenes, over and over again. Seriously? You couldn't string together more than one scene, in one plot point, with at least one other one, to spend at least one minute, in one year, before jumping again?
It was as if the writers (if there were any) were in the writing room on the day of filming saying, "I know! First Cole does this, then he goes back and does that..." and then decided to film it just like that an hour later.
They trusted the audience to stitch together some supposedly complex plot points (I say supposedly because at times we would be spoon-fed, while at others we would be left saying, "Huh?"), but we couldn't be trusted to realize that they were jumping back and forth between times when switching scenes? Perhaps if it weren't for this ongoing insult, I would be watching Season 2.
When every scene of an episode has "YEAR: XXXX" preceding of it, you know you're being treated like a child. Nothing says you don't trust your audience more than telling them what you're going to show them, just before you show them - as it they're not capable of getting it.