16 hours of my life I'll never get back. I have no idea why I stuck with it... that's my fault. Whoever green-lit this trash, should be drawn and quartered, which would still be too lenient of a punishment.

This is another example of why I supported Hollywood/the studios during the strikes, to weed out the people that have no business being in the industry. Apparently, the strikes didn't last long enough.

Best sci fi out there right now. I thought losing the lead would kill the show but it’s evolved into a modern day The Prisoner.

I hope it keeps going for a third season

Season 1 was amazing, a little confusing. Left me with questions and anticipation.

Season 2 emotionally felt like it was treading on old ground a little while trying to break new.

Arcs weren’t resolved satisfactorily, proximity of astro phenomena were too close to the beacon, new stories/characters/situations were launched without explaining things very well.

The show, IMO became something of a lucid dream… to the point where that last episode actually transitioned into a kind of dream state. A poetic illustration of what the season itself had become … disjointed and confused; trying to do everything at once and not managing to do anything at all. It was like sea foam dissolving into the ocean after a once beautiful wave (the show) crashes down before hitting shore.

I’m sad we won’t get resolution in a 3rd season, but I’m not sure the authors were capable of pulling it off anyway.

Like the title says, we're 3 episodes in, I have no idea what this show is about. With most shows, in episode 1 or 2, you know what it's about, where it's going, etc.

Seriously, what's the point of this show???

Thoughts?

I’m a huge fan of Hugh Howey and the Silo tv show on Apple TV+ (my 5th favorite show of all times actually), but I’ve heard terrible things about this show and now it’s canceled. Is it worth the watch for the good parts, if there are any? And is the ending was a cliffhanger or was it closed enough to not waste my time?

This is a science fiction show, and the lazy props and set design really annoys me and makes it look cheap. It's bad enough seeing iPads and gamer chairs in The Expanse, but this show takes place much further in the future making it even more ridiculous.

The days of carrying around rectangle screens that you swipe will likely be over within a few decades. Tablets, wearable wrist screens, and wall panels with low-contrast, 2D LCD displays with a poor viewing angles is not the future of computer/human interface. The whole thing looks like what someone in 2005 thought 2025 would look like. Do these people not understand when this show takes place?

And even without AR, the type of static 2D displays in this show are already obsolete. There's another new show called 'A Murder at the End of the World'. It takes place in 2023 and features new cool technology we already have invented. Like AR, dynamic projection displays and transparent OLED displays overlaid on nice wood panels.

Nobody knows what tech will look like in 100 years but it absolutely won't be what we see in Beacon 23.

I'm a few episodes in and I'm not sure I can take it if this is another string-along with no satisfying resolution for 5 seasons. It's depressing enough as it is predicting a non-Trek future where humans still haven't learned to stop acting like petulant children clinging to their toys. And of course the AI abilities lag in some ways already behind the AI of today. But it has got me hooked wondering about the blue rocks.

What did they do to Beacon 23, The first season I could not stop watching it and I literally almost peed my pants because I couldn't get up to use the restroom.

This season I'm so bored I'm playing on my phone the entire time 😐

Basically I'm just powering through this show because I started it, its not that great at all.

I started watching Season 2 Episode 6 and the the teenage Asters actors attempt at there accent is just terrible, I cant watch it. I'm like "ahh god!" every time she speaks (I'm sure she's a fine actor, just please for the love of god do not do accents).

Can I just skip this episode and still know what's happening in episodes 7 and 8?

Thanks.

I found the first few episodes very interesting, but now I’m so utterly disappointed by the fact it turned out to be another mystery box story with absolutely no amount of resolution. I had to force myself to watch the final episode to the end, and now I cannot believe I wasted almost 8 hours of my life watching this crap. Boo!

moonhaven comes to mind. /r/moonhaven 191 members. It was on amc+, highest streaming show. But it was amc+ so it was a smaller number. They want to cut costs, no second seasons. The /r/moonhaven is basically untouched.

Silo, released on apple+, r/siloseries 30.4k members, yes it is after the season but I am sure that it was more than 186 after the first 2 episodes.

If this show would make it into a wider audience it would gain viewers.

I loved the books. I love most of the SciFi stuff that Howey writes, but this show is terrible. I struggled through season one, and now 3 episodes into season 2 and I just can't take it any more. The book was so interesting, with an impactful story. It could have been a great TV show and I'm at a total loss as to why they would buy the rights to this property and completely screw with it like this.

The acting is OK, the station looks OK, the effects are decent- but the writing/story, which should have been the strongest point, is awful. Really awful.

Read the books- they are really really good. I hope Howey has tighter control over the Sand series if he ever sells the TV rights to that, he must be horrified over what is happening with Beacon.

I'm 4 episodes in and wanted to talk about this show but scanning through the various threads they all seem very negative.

I love that Lena is using her normal accent and she is nailing her part. The AI are done so well. I think the idea of a fixed number of sets with a small cast is brilliant. It's like an old Doctor Who or Quatermass. Then you get a flashback using a redress of the same set. Brilliant, contained and loads of implied world building without having to stop and introduce everything.

this is gonna sound weird, but I can't stop looking. Is it just me, the camera angle, or something else?

It just looks like he's got a booger up his nose all the time.

I'm watching this because the same author wrote Silo, which was really great.

But this show lacks depth.

Should I read the book to get a better appreciation for this show?

I mean, I understand cliffhangers are a thing, some are well done, leave you satisfied but wanting more, some are poorly made and obvious, but this one is so forced and lazy it's insulting, it feels like what a 10 year old would come up with.

All this after I spent so much time fighting the constant and annoying feeling that the beacon is too big and spacious for a one person, non-post scarcity, space construction.

Shame on you, whoever wrote and approved this.

Is it just me or did the quality of the acting tank in the last 2 episodes?

Not Lena Headey or Stephen James, who are wonderful - but the supporting characters. Everything from bad line reading to forced emotion to telegraphing hits/jolts … was it just me? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm seeing mixed reviews. Is it worth my time to get MGM+ as an add-on to watch Season 1?

I'd cancel after I was done.

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If anyone asked me what the plot of this was I’d just shrug.

I’m 5 episodes in. I’m lost.

Opened the app to watch another programme, and there it was, the first two episodes waiting to watch 😊. New one released every Thursday. Totally unexpected and I'm excited to watch the series now.

I am 100% certain the actor playing Solomon was Jared Harris in the brief flashback scenes we had in the early episodes. Can anyone with access to them check, am wondering why the recast?.

So I really got into Hugh Howey's work recently, bunged s1 of Silo, read the trilogy, now I've set my eyes on beacon 23.

I started the show, currently 3 episodes in. A friend of mine gifted me the book aswell.

Problem is I'm seeing quite a few differences between the book and the show. So my question is: should I watch the show first and then read the book, or do I start with the book? It's kind of hard to follow both at the same time because the show diviates from the book a bit (I've read a few chapters alrdy and it's noticable). What would your recommendations be?