Both reviews of this series and the advertisements made me NOT want to watch it. First of all, I'm a big horror movie fan, and the most annoying thing to me is a movie that is advertised as a horror movie is actually some psychological drama happening in someone's head. That's what I thought this was and I put off watching it until I ran out of everything else.
That said, this is not a horror series. That's ok, it actually doesn't pretend to be. It was also an enormous change to see a middle-aged white guy kidnapped instead of a young girl or boy. Kidnapping a doctor for their skills is a fresh take, and appreciated.
Although there are several struggles happening simultaneously in the series (which all work together - none are shoved in awkwardly), the most poignant and heartbreaking struggle is the doctor's internal struggle with himself - where he little by little copes with the fact that he is going to die. Or at least, he's not ever going back to his other life.
The other reviews suggest the ending is not good. I strongly disagree - it was the only ending that could have worked. And the doctor left the world in the most graceful way possible in his circumstances.
Thumbs up to the acting, the story, the direction, I will be thinking of this series for several days.
That said, this is not a horror series. That's ok, it actually doesn't pretend to be. It was also an enormous change to see a middle-aged white guy kidnapped instead of a young girl or boy. Kidnapping a doctor for their skills is a fresh take, and appreciated.
Although there are several struggles happening simultaneously in the series (which all work together - none are shoved in awkwardly), the most poignant and heartbreaking struggle is the doctor's internal struggle with himself - where he little by little copes with the fact that he is going to die. Or at least, he's not ever going back to his other life.
The other reviews suggest the ending is not good. I strongly disagree - it was the only ending that could have worked. And the doctor left the world in the most graceful way possible in his circumstances.
Thumbs up to the acting, the story, the direction, I will be thinking of this series for several days.
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