heaven It’s a good show. I need to get that out of the way early because I think it’s fun, well-written, and has enough twists and turns to keep the momentum strong throughout the eight-episode season. The premise is pretty simple, but it moves along slowly throughout the first episode. President Cal Bradford (played charmingly by James Marsden) has been murdered, and secret agent Xavier Collins (a sometimes boring, sometimes transcendent Sterling K. Brown) is trying to figure out the culprit. That alone would be interesting enough to be worth a peek, but the biggest reveal at the end of the premiere is that all of the show’s events are taking place in an underground bunker somewhere beneath Colorado.
See, the world outside this bunker has been devastated by what we initially thought was nuclear war, but it later turns out to be something else entirely in the show’s best episode, “The Day.” There’s a plot revolving around Bradford’s murder and the machinations of Samantha Redmond (code name: Sinatra), and it’s a bit of over-the-top fun that reminds me in many ways, both good and bad. lost. I had a great time watching the show on Hulu last week, but there was one glaring issue that ruined almost every episode. The music is so fucking bad.
That’s not entirely fair. The score is good overall and serves the plot. What’s especially annoying is the gimmick the show has decided to deploy repeatedly. With the exception of the aforementioned standout “The Day,” every episode climaxes with what can best be described as a breathtaking, slow-burn cover of a popular ’80s song. It’s the cursed sibling of the haunting piano cover that’s been featured in every movie trailer for the past decade. With these words ringing in your ears, it’s hard to stay focused on the plot and the emotional payoff at the end of the episode.
Of course, there are reasons related to the story focusing on 1980s songs. It’s a joke that Bradford loves 80s trash, a love he forces on his son Jeremy. If so, I understand. heaven The song was utilized to convey, and sometimes does, the disconnect between the presidential father and his rebellious teenage son. Many of these songs first appeared in the episode in their actual form and were later followed by the “Epic Trailer Version” of “I Think We’re Alone Now”.
second season heaven The series began with “Graceland” on February 23, and I was hoping to get off the cover. “Graceland” is a bit of a departure from the show. Rather than continuing from the season 1 finale, where Agent Collins steals a plane and flies to the outside world, the show detours into an end-of-the-world vignette featuring Shailene Woodley.
great, heaven I switched to Woodley mode and it worked extensively. We see her character Annie lose her mother, drop out of medical school, and then take a job as a tourer at a mansion named Elvis. She was there when the “world-ending” catastrophe (I’ll avoid spoilers because I love the episode revealing what actually happened) struck, and she hid in the Graceland basement for two years. Something happens, it’s important but not noteworthy for my purposes right now, and a slow cover of the already balladic “Can’t Help Falling In Love” (incredibly subtitled “Dark Version” on the artist’s YouTube page) blows up the scene.
Aaaah! why? The original song is so good, just use it. also, Crazy Rich Asians We’ve already shot a cover of “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and more.
Anyway, I haven’t seen episodes 2 through 4 of the new season yet (although I accidentally read a major spoiler while writing this blog, damn it, welcome my sacrifice), but I have no hopes of being released from this prison of creepiness any time soon.
I’ll leave you with the cover that attracted the most attention and groans at that moment. Bradford talks in episode 5. rocky iii He speaks to his son and says: have Watch it together because it’s an iconic movie with equally iconic songs. I must admit, as soon as the words “Eye of the Tiger” came out of Marsden’s mouth, I tried to prepare a ballad version of perhaps the most famous pump-up song in pop culture. this:
shit, heaven.
