The Man Who Fell to Earth - US Pace - Showtime - (Spoilers)

Agent Coulson · 15-01-2022 10:45pm #1

From Alex Kurtzman

An alien who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

An all star cast starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Jimmi Simpson, Clarke Peters, Rob Delaney & Kate Mulgrew.

It will have to do some job to match the book and film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2sz25iDu0&ab_channel=SHOWTIME

Slydice · 16-01-2022 1:41am

Looks like a solid cast. For a second in the trailer I mistook Clarke Peters for Morgan Freeman

Agent Coulson · 22-02-2022 4:25pm

Starts April 24th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqM5UeQVRvI&ab_channel=SHOWTIME

gmisk · 22-02-2022 5:22pm

Looks very interesting...plus Bill Nighy!

Agent Coulson · 13-03-2022 8:36pm

5 minute sneek peak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLniMU6dJck&ab_channel=SHOWTIME

Slydice · 10-04-2022 4:28pm

Looks like another trailer came out yesterday or the day before.

Trailer 2:

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

I don't know the book or film so not watching anything except the trailers but this looks like it's going to be some good ideas/concepts science fiction

loyatemu · 11-04-2022 3:03pm

looks interesting, but nowhere near as weird as the Bowie movie.

Slydice · 24-04-2022 2:41pm

OK! This is pretty cool! Feels very idea-based science fiction.

Obviously warnings for anyone who can't cope with black people or women (expecially black women) in leading roles.

1: Good intro here I think with two perspective, one human to carry the audience into the story but also the other alien so to get across the alien history.

Scenes, directing, visuals, special effects etc all feel like they've had a lot of work and money put in.

At a guess

He's from a planet/moon orbiting another planet and it/they have a moon or another planet orbiting.

Has the hints of them losing their atmosphere.. not sure if a runaway greenhouse effect. I'm pretty sure that's Venus and it has heaps of clouds where he mentioned not having clouds and that machine/walker/flying octo-bot thing seemed to be trying to make clouds for water vapour/rain generation.

What's he here to do.. make small portable fusion power devices for people? maybe? i dunno. The apple tech conference vibe feels a bit old/grating.. wierd.

Bill Nighy is a bit of a mystery.

If he's an earlier landed Alien.. Why couldn't he just do what Faraday has arrived to do.

Agent Coulson · 24-04-2022 8:37pm

A very good start to the series right there.

fritzelly · 27-04-2022 7:56pm

Quite enjoyed that - hope it keeps this up

Agent Coulson · 01-05-2022 2:46pm

Inspired casting of Bill Nighy as an older version of the Bowie character from the movie.

Two epsiodes in and it really is great Sci-Fi

On the casting Kate Mulgrew & Jimmy Simpson are also great

Slydice · 01-05-2022 8:10pm

2: At the end there I was like.. don't you dare! don't you dare! 😲

I was half worried he was gonna kill the father.

Very dark on the CIA side of things!

Sounds like they experimented on Bill Nighy's Newton when he first arrived.

If I was to guess, I'm thinking..

the Aliens might have a kinda hive mind/collective type thing.. not quite star trek borg but some kind of non-individual existence.

Nighy kinda hints at it each appearance when talking about drone behaviour

ejmaztec · 02-05-2022 11:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119003487#Comment_119003487

In the original film that I saw years ago, I seem to remember them trying to prove Newton was an alien by trying to remove whatever it was that was disguising his eyes. It didn't work and the human appearance of his eyes became permanent.

Slydice · 10-05-2022 11:03pm

3: That was fun.. this show is fun.. except when the CIA parts are on.. and then it's pretty frightening!

Not sure I want to know/find out what happened to Newton and where/what state Newton is currently in.

Agent Coulson · 15-05-2022 6:02pm

What a brilliant bonkers episode this week

I am totally loving this

Science fiction at it's very best

Slydice · 15-05-2022 6:48pm

4: Well, that's some backstory on Justin. Only at this point did I notice they are naming the episodes after Bowie songs.

So I'm guessing then that emotions and how we process memories are a difference and something happened to Newton in how that went.

All the same, I'm still guessing Newton still exists/lives somehow. That Clays story is going to find out about that. It does seem like it shouldn't be as important to him as Faraday now that it's clear Faraday is gonna bring about Fusion.

Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (Classic Queen Mix)

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

fritzelly · 18-05-2022 9:48pm

I was never a fan of the movie but I'm loving the quirkiness of this show

Spon Farmer · 19-05-2022 2:03pm

I’m hoping this is will be on Paramount+ when it launches.

Agent Coulson · 29-05-2022 9:26pm

Such a great show this weeks epsiode had some cracking lines.

03-06-2022 2:06pm

Only watched the first two episodes so far and this is great stuff

TheIrishGrover · 03-06-2022 3:29pm

holy cr*p. Didn't know this was out already. That's a HELL of an impressive cast. Trailer looks great.

Agent Coulson · 05-06-2022 1:40pm

What an amazing episode this week a pure joy to watch.

Slydice · 06-06-2022 1:49pm

5: That one was less dark and I really liked the special effects.

The structures and planetary system around the planet Anthea looked really cool. All the structures seem to be crumbling. I did wonder if the might not have something like an asteroid belt with ice there but guessed they could've probably drained that too if they even had one.

Separately.. it feels like that was a connection with Newton still going on inside Faradays head.

Slydice · 07-06-2022 8:02pm

6: That was fun. I think in the last couple of episodes Clarke Peters and Chiwetel Ejiofor have put out some really top notch face acting.

Really not sure what gives with the Newton story at this point. The evidence for Newton being malevolent really feels like it's lacking.

Cambodia next maybe to explore that? Seems the power generation inventing has probably hit it's high point unless this oil tycoon is gonna throw the story a bit.

Slydice · 12-06-2022 2:40pm

7: Well .. well well.. wellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwellwell WELL!

Oh I do like how this story keeps building up.

I'd just been thinking it was pretty cool how it was getting so wide and big and still keeping the audience looped in.

Then this. Well.. roll on the next episode!

I am guessing.. the whole PR job is the current line of all the scheming that's going to work out.. since it was the very first scene in episode one.

Just what that means in terms of the Anteans coming here.. I dunno.

Obviously the biological weaponry was a bit scary but Faraday did assure they weren't violent and the weapons only kicked off from what looked like a defensive position.. plus the CIA did torture Newton.. I think..

soooooo... all in all... I dunno 😁

Agent Coulson · 19-06-2022 11:56am

Another cracking episode and that showdown at the house was tense as a hell.

Nun with a gun is not Judas but has angel wings.

Slydice · 20-06-2022 7:48pm

8: Huh.. the episode had moments but the story felt a bit stalling.

I think it might have been Dominguez calling out to her crew or whoever she's working with.. I kept expecting them to show up.

I think giving Mary Lou angel wings using her blood was clever.

Agent Coulson · 26-06-2022 10:18am

Jimmi Simpson is just an amazing actor what a performance in this week's episode.

Slydice · 26-06-2022 2:34pm

9: I tell ya! When this show gets dark.. IT GETS DARK! 😲

Ha! That's guess she was working for Thorn all along and he's Newton!

I wonder does all these dots being joined together mean there a ship actually there that they will show. Lookin forward to seeing that!

Agent Coulson · 03-07-2022 10:06am

A brilliant end to a brilliant series, Science fiction at its very best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3MX-rUtS6M&ab_channel=DavidBowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ObjtVdsV3I&ab_channel=DavidBowie-Topic

Slydice · 04-07-2022 6:13pm

Finished! Well that was a nice... dark.. wholesome... ominous... hearty .. scary.. uplifting piece of fresh feeling science fiction!

10: Felt like this episode just needed to let all the dominoes that had been placed during the season fall into place.

Was cool to see Newton and Faraday while they were on Anthea. Ship looked cool in action too. Not sure if it looked like it could go light speed.. but pretty fast all the same.

I get the feeling that's the end of the story but it did feel like they could do something more if they wanted. It probably just wouldn't feel that same exploration of humanity that this did.

Future: I dunno. Like they could.. but maybe they shouldn't.

MargeS · 05-07-2022 4:27pm

I'm on episode 4 of this series.... is it supposed to be a comedy drama?

I can't quite figure it out yet.

And I've seen the shadow of the crew/camera on actors in several scenes so far.

I'm just about sticking with it.

Slydice · 05-07-2022 7:13pm

Eh... overall it felt more of an exploration of a scifi idea and maybe humanities that I can't remember if I've seen done before. It has elements of many other things that I've experienced but not put together like this.

AMKC · 17-08-2023 2:46pm

Will there be a season two does anyone know?

Slydice · 18-08-2023 1:32pm

Doesn't look like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(TV_series)

In October 2022, the series was not renewed for a second season.[5]

Feels right, it felt very much story scifi and not one trying to pull in audiences in with big events or the like. Kinda more like a think-about-it story. Hard I would guess to get money for it.

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The Man Who Fell to Earth - US Pace - Showtime - (Spoilers)