Cal McGaugh

Depressing, grimey, poorly scripted, directed, & casted. What a downer. Story line goes off the rails early on. Instead of developing the characters & story, you're rocketed into a scenario where an old woman has become a zombie with fungus out her mouth, having torn out the throat of a neighbor or family member (?) in her home, and running after a girl who I assumed was a leading cast member, who gets killed a few minutes later by a National Guardsman, in just the first 1/3 of episode 1. Then, boom!, you're thrown 20yrs later into the ugly remnants of humanity & broken society, dilapidated buildings, virtually no infrastructure. Pedro Pascal, who plays the main male character looks & sounds so much like Nathan Fillion, they could be twins. What really did it for me was to see Anna Torv, who was so good in Fringe, turn into a foul-mouth beat up hard core whatever, calling someone a "mother fxcker".....lots of Fbombs thrown by even 14yr old girls. Unnecessary & trite use of profanity. Just a boring waste of time with no redeeming value. Really sorry Torv took this job. She's a very good actress, but this is beneath her. Also amazed at all the good reviews. This had great potential, i.e. a fungus that takes over humans, but they screwed it up top to bottom.

Disappointing. It started well, but deteriorated until it was laughable. The "creature" was pathetic. Some of the acting was decent considering they are amateur, but it also degraded to silly. The writing & directing were amateurish. What's really amazing is the credits.....so many were involved, even had a "Beach Crew" for the last scene. Maybe they got paid in hamburgers? Hot dogs? Coupons? Overall a waste of time. Could have, should have, been way better considering the resources.