Sylvia Alan

I'm the odd one out again. I watched almost half of this rubbish, before I turned it off. Everything, every single thing was totally predictable. The characters were nothing like actual human beings, just hollow, except for Simon, who was worse than hollow, he was repulsive. All in all, my opinion was that it was a typical, cheap horror flick. The dog was okay.

I watched the whole thing. On the final episode I laughed so hard and so long, it was almost worth the endless long, slow scenes where absolutely nothing happened. Near the end, it was funnier than an actual comedy and cornier than a Hallmark Special. The final tournament features loud dramatic music behind two people sitting their moving pieces around as if it were in some way consequential to human existence, as if, two brilliant minds could not have been put to better use. Frequently, there would be a flash of the year on the screen, so why in 1965 was the clothing, hair styles, and make-up languishing in the late 1950s? And that cheap wig Beth wore that looked like a a red helmet really didn't make sense, it was so distracting. The sudden, prolonged loud music was also from a different period, or maybe Kentucky didn't catch on to the English music wave for six years? The reason I was having such a good laugh is because I was smoking a cone shaped, pre-roll available at cannabis dispensaries. So were they. We didn't have those joints in New York in the sixties. There were some sweet moments, Beth calling her adopted mom Mother. The friendship with Jolene. The way Beth used everyone for her advantage, and they kept coming back for more. I did turn it off about 5 minutes before the end...do you think she won the last match? Do they really put chess players up in suites in five star hotels?