I'm honestly shocked by how many people liked this series. It's been so hard to get through, and I love horror and thriller shows/films.
Archive 81 is an incredibly beautiful series. The cinematography is really great, and the soundtrack is okay... but it legitimately feels like the series was written by a middle schooler.
The dialogue and the way the characters act towards each other is daft. Their behavior is absolutely unbelievable, and there are so many plot holes. Like certain characters will be able to perform an action, until the main character figures something out, then it's outside their wheelhouse to perform that same action again....It just doesn't make sense. Also it's better with subtitles because the sound mixing isn't that great. It's hard to tell what's supposed to be background noise and what's supposed to be "chanting".
Interesting idea, but terribly executed.