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Amazon Pilot The After
Schmiznurf
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Good news folks, it's been picked up for a ten episode season. There is no air date but the order means those who watched it and wanted more will be very happy, and we won't have to worry about the mysteries not being solved for now.
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Mark
The actor playing him was in Banshee recently. Very good he was, did a better accent as well
So intrigued as to why Sharon Lawrence has been massively aged for this!
Does it pop-up?
I've only just discovered these Amazon pilots, just watched this one, did it not ask as it's already been given the go ahead?
Just about to watch a couple of the others
The After has been commissioned as a series.
I have found with Chris Carter, he is very much a one show wonder. The X files is his masterpiece, but Millenium, The lone guman and Harsh Realm that he did inbetween were not very good.
Will he finally have another hit on his hands?
I doubt it with 'The After'.
Being on Amazon won't help, and although I like it, it doesn't have that epic factor. I'm sure it will be good, but not 'water cooler' good.
'Terrible' is an understatement! All the shouting between the cast was about as subtle as a brick through a window. There's an Irish guy in it, oh so he must say 'f*ck' every other word and be racist towards the black guy for no reason. All those parts are really dire.....
The only half decent bit was when they first get out into the open and you see a ton of people wandering around. Suddenly it was a different show altogether... but then they get back to smaller scenes and it's woeful. I would recast half of them.
The Irish guy was the worst thing ever - everything else was pretty bad as well, as you say the shouting - it was repetitive, badly scripted and also pretty damn poorly acted - some genuinely weird deliveries. genuinely cannot remember I saw a show that clumsily scripted AND acted at the same time. Put that beside the cw's most stereotypical lazy show and that piece of shit looks like a masterpiece.
You can also watch on your good old PC or Mac just by going to amazon's website.
Hmm, is that going to work then?
I can sort of understand what they're doing but I think we're a million miles away from a online-only series being profitable unless sold on to some more mainstream channel.
And with all the channels already available on cable/satellite I can't see enough people wanting to pay more to watch one programme to be able to justify the expense of commissioning much else.