Wayward Pines [** Spoilers **]

JP Liz V1

Mod wrote:

Mod Note: This series is based on a trilogy of books by Blake Crouch. NO BOOK SPOILERS for anything that hasn't been on TV yet - you will be punished!

Trailer for Wayward Pines – 10-episode Midseason Event Series From Fox. Premieres in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl81YIh0Ar0

Starts on May 14th

Hopefully a return to form from M. Night Shyamalan, seems to be like Twin Peaks

Marje

The first episode is available on Sky Catch Up for 6 days.

JP Liz V1

FOX UK on Thursday May 14th at 9pm

Alfred Borden

The pilot is excellent. Really lived up to expectation.

Skerries

This is going to **** with my head

mafaa

an interesting pilot

pity Ethan & his family

Agent Coulson

Really enjoyed the pilot.

It's got a strong vibe of The Prisoner off it which is good.

Great cast looking forward to the rest of the season.

Patty O Furniture

Skerries wrote: »

This is going to **** with my head

Its in that same timeslot as Fortitude, let's hope it doesn't wreck the head like Fortitude did! But looking forward to it.

Marje wrote: »

The first episode is available on Sky Catch Up for 6 days.

Thanks, I saw that briefly & thought that was only the trailer, didn't look any further!

somesoldiers

Starting tonight on Fox @9 guys

Heckler

Good pilot. Twin peaksey and Alan Wake in its setting. Overtones of the Prisoner, the Nowhere Man and Lost. Bit clumbsy in parts but interesting.

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Really enjoyed the pilot.

It's got a strong vibe of The Prisoner off it which is good.

Great cast looking forward to the rest of the season.

McGoohan version not Catweazel version, I hope!

Agent Coulson

zorro2566 wrote: »

McGoohan version not Catweazel version, I hope!

Of course.

TwoShedsJackson

Enjoyable first episode. Can't see how they'd come up with an even vaguely plausible explanation for the goings on but I suppose we can enjoy the journey especially if they do keep it to a 10 episode one-off season rather than dragging it out ad nauseum.

Mr E

This is based on the first of 3 books (Pines, Wayward, The Last Town).
If they do one season per book, it will be a nice self-contained 3-series story.

Try to avoid reading about the books - you'll spoil a massive twist about halfway through season 1.

CastorTroy

Must catch up on this.

If they are based on books, any chance of a warning in the title?

Mr E

Done.

Watched it at lunchtime and it is indeed very 'Prisoner' like with Matt Dillon like a No 6 character trying to escape the Village! I enjoyed the first episode and will look forward to how it pans out.It would be great if it was just a once off season and tie up the story rather than drag it out for years!

CastorTroy

If this is to be a miniseries then I'll not bother with the books. So now just have to avoid spoilers from all those people who never even knew of the books until now but will post spoilers based on what they read about the books online.

Just watched the first episode. Thought was really only a hint of Twin Peaks. Felt more like The Prisoner and him trying to leave town reminded me of The Truman Show.
Also find the aging thing interesting. 1 person claiming to be there a year, despite arriving about 15 years ago and 1 being there 12 years having only just got there.
Though think more want to see what they do to people to have them settle

Didn't recognise Shannyn Sossamon, but think last time I saw her was in 40 Days and 40 Nights

JONJO THE MISER

Just watched first episode, liked it.
I think he is dead and in some purgatory.

Wolverine359

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Just watched first episode, liked it.
I think he is dead and in some purgatory.

Like Lost? (Or that interpretation of it anyway.) That'd be awful. :pac:

The Black Oil

Got a Shutter Island vibe from it.

JP Liz V1

Reminded me of Persons Unknown

Rob30888

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Reminded me of Persons Unknown

I came here to post this exact thing. It feels like a cross between Persons Unknown and Harper's Island. Really excited to see how the rest of the show plays out.

The Black Oil

Re Persons Unknown - is it good or bad to be reminded of that?

JP Liz V1

The Black Oil wrote: »

Re Persons Unknown - is it good or bad to be reminded of that?

I liked it, it started well but ended badly, if you can watch all the episodes in one go

WinnyThePoo

Quite fast paced. I agree with an above poster. The time thing is interesting. Maybe its where they put agents out to pastor or testing new forms of imprisonment.

Never heard of the books.

MisterAnarchy

Mr E wrote: »

This is based on the first of 3 books (Pines, Wayward, The Last Town).
If they do one season per book, it will be a nice self-contained 3-series story.

I think the writers said that the first series will actually cover all 3 books .
Series 2 would be made up if greenlit.

hatrickpatrick

Made a note of this show last week when I saw an ad, but foolishly not the channel or day/time it's on - Fox, Thursday seems to be what people are saying?

Alfred Borden

An even stronger second episode. This will be the show of the summer it seems.

oleras

I thought that second episode was as weak as tapwater.

Drama me arse, terrible overacting. The nurse is the only half decent character imo.

Im giving up now...before its cancelled.

MisterAnarchy

oleras wrote: »

I thought that second episode was as weak as tapwater.

Drama me arse, terrible overacting. The nurse is the only half decent character imo.

I also thought it was overacted and a bit rushed .

Matt Dillon's character doesn't seem to be the brightest chap

He seems to be obsessed with his initial mission to find the two missing agents ,which you'd think would take a back seat after he was almost killed in a car accident and he is in a weird town .
There has also been no mention of his partner in the crash ??

He also seemed to get pretty fed up with the town after only being there a day or two which was too sudden.

Im giving up now...before its cancelled.

It wont be cancelled ,its a 10 episode series ,which covers the 3 existing books

I'm enjoying the show ,its not without flaws but its gripping stuff and keeping me guessing.

Loughc

Really enjoying the show so far. Although the

throat slit scene in episode 2 looked fake a fook

I really need to know what's going on! It really seems like a mix between Twin Peaks and The Truman Show.

allym

I'm loving this so far. I need to know what's happening and I'm just so confused!!!!

The Black Oil

I thought the second was alright. Knew yer wan who was helping him was going to be killed off. She was too sympathetic.

Lovely Bloke

Is this typical summertime fare? A la "The Strain" or "Under The Dome" or is the acting & scripting better than those two?

Mr E

Probably not far off those two... watch the first and see if it hooks you.

Lovely Bloke

Thanks, but nope, life's too short, and I've plenty other actual quality to get through.

TerrorFirmer

I have to say after two episodes I'm absolutely hooked - it really does make you want to keep watching just to see where it's all going. Really looking forward to the next episode. Truman show meets Lost.

hatrickpatrick

I don't know if anyone caught it, but briefly In episode one when I rewatched it, the doctor from wayward pines meets Ethan's boss and the boss asks him if they can "call it off", to which the doctor (Jenkins?) replies "it's done, all taken care of" which implies that the secret service is in on whatever's going on, and are feigning their ignorance about what might have happened to him.

Couple of theories:
A social experiment?
A punishment for agents who misbehave? Are Ethan and Kate both there because of their affair?
Testing a new method of mind control?
Trying to make people entirely and blindly compliant to authority, a bit like the process of breaking down Jason Bourne's independent mind in The Bourne Ultimatum, before he can be used as a human robot?

Probably none of the above, but those are the main ideas which have occurred to me. The fact that Ethan's boss is suggested to have been involved in, possibly even requesting or authorising Ethan's abduction strikes me as massively significant - surprised it's not getting more discussion online.

tommy2bad

Loughc wrote: »

Really enjoying the show so far. Although the

throat slit scene in episode 2 looked fake a fook

I really need to know what's going on! It really seems like a mix between Twin Peaks and The Truman Show.

Never trusted her, still don't.

I'm enjoying it as it unfolds but for all that a bad ending (it was all a dream) would ruin it. Lost no matter how good it was for a while was ruined by the cop out ending.

Daroxtar

OK, 3 episodes in and I'm definitely hooked. I love shows that make me ask WTF is going on and this is one of them.

hatrickpatrick

DaFUQ @ that ending O_O

Ethan was an absolute idiot to shoot him IMO, he seemed to be in the kind of mood where he would have told him wtf was going on had he just kept the gun pointed at him.

WTF was up with that whole animal sound thing at the end? This series is getting incredibly bizarre.

100% completely addicted at this stage

EDIT: Just occurred to me - are the walls around Wayward Pines designed as much to keep something out as they are to keep the population in?

What if the town is a Noah's Ark type project in which certain people have been chosen for whatever reason to exist in this town protected from whatever post-apocalyptic mutants / zombies / whatever exist outside? What if the town is the only "normal" bit of Earth left at some point in the future, and the idea is to try and continue the human race in some form?

So. Many. Questions.

EDIT: Sorry lads, assumed we were operating on the Love/Hate principle that spoiler tags were redundant after the episode had aired. My bad.

MisterAnarchy

@hatrickpatrick, you might want to put some spoiler tags in your post

Sugarlumps

Excellent show so far, always had a soft spot for Dillon.

JP Liz V1

Why are spoiler tags needed once the episode has aired?

Agent Coulson

Once aired the episode is fair game.

I was a bit uncertain about the first two episodes - the fact they kept jumping back to the family, splitting up the action, was a bit jarring and took away somewhat from the action, but now that the family is with him in the third episode, it seems and feels a lot more cohesive.

It's a very intriguing prospect - would really like to see how they figure out the time differences; Juliette Lewis' character, who didn't last very long at all, says she was there for just a year, when in reality it has been 15-16 years, yet Kate should only have been there 5 weeks has been there 14 years.

Just after finishing episode 3 and they really like killing off their main stars. Adios, Terrance Howard.

hatrickpatrick

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Why are spoiler tags needed once the episode has aired?

It's to bring posts on Boards.ie in line with the Irish media over the last few days. 99% redacted.

hatrickpatrick

Deleted User wrote: »

I was a bit uncertain about the first two episodes - the fact they kept jumping back to the family, splitting up the action, was a bit jarring and took away somewhat from the action, but now that the family is with him in the third episode, it seems and feels a lot more cohesive.

Personally I feel that having his family around is going to be a nightmare for him. Especially with the Kate nonsense. It's hard to plan your escape from a freaky open prison when you have to also attempt to smuggle two other people who have no idea what's going on and both of whom seem to be unable to prioritise getting the hell out of there over their suspicions about Kate. Priorities, people!

The Black Oil

At least he's reunited with his family this early on. A full season of them chasing him would have been annoying, imo.

allym

That sheriff loves his ice cream