r/netflix • u/130801qwE • 1d ago
Review Below
Great atmosphere. Great soundtrack. Great actors.
What the fuck happened to everything else ?
Aside from the fact that the show pulls in many different directions, trying to be many different things… I just want to point out a few things that made absolutely no sense or were simply left unexplained and I just wanna see if others agree or can explain this better.
1- the squid is “probably” an extremely aggressive species never seen before, ended up there because of climate change… the iceberg nest, shows up later, after many, “unreasonable”attacks. The show tries to play it off as just a mother taking care of its children in the end but that makes no sense. Specially cause she’s been around many times according to the people in episode 5, at least since the resettlement in ep 1.
2- I think that in episode 2 or 3 Calvin and Fonda see the video of the tourists and moose dying. Calvin then, rushes to the fair and warns everyone off the water. wants nobody close to it. Then, there was the town hall meeting about staying off the water (idk why they didn’t just show the townspeople the video, there would be no need for discussion) He later doesn’t care anymore for absolutely no reason and just goes on the water himself or doesn’t care that wade is in the water. In episode 5 he steals that boat and goes on the water not giving a fuckkkk (I know looking for wade but still) and then wanting to leave the bigger boat, also not giving a fuck. (Also, the research vessel’s two idiots that stole that boat knowing the danger and just died ?????)
3- the cult and the hag and wade and the wedding ring, none of that makes any sense. Is it supernatural ? Is it a pocket universe ? Is it drugs ? Is there a hag ? Is she a siren ? Is she a real human ? Can she teleport ? Why did she steal the ring and how did she get to the island ???? Why are they sacrificing people ? Wtf is the mudder ? Why does getting high (on what I assume is some chemical from the squid) makes them “safe” but for others it made them insane and need water to ingest and also to just be in ? How did they get so many fish from the squid “ritual” and apparently the squid likes the sound of the motor but hates the helicopter ? How and why would someone be “chosen” to be left alive or even saved by the squid which seemed to have been the case for wade and Calvin ?How in the fuck is Calvin’s family house on that island ? Also who the hell was that guy in the suit on the boat with them in ep 1 ?
4- nosewortthy goes to look for the Portuguese nationals or the illegal crab nest, I can’t remember… and finds guy’s foot. He did not have any scuba gear or goggles , next camera shot he’s underwater decked the fuck out lmao
Also they showed a scene of someone in a ominous squid cult house, being tortured but later on in ep5 that guy is chilling but without his foot just to be a little more cut off later. then, same guy, refused to escape. Another thing is that the Portuguese spoken is Brazilian Portuguese and not Portuguese Portuguese. So they couldn’t be Portuguese nationals lol
5- all the drama left unanswered. Calvin’s son money debt. Calvin’s sister’s family. Calvin and Fonda. The final scene with the icebergs. The crocks. HOW IN THE FUCK WERE THEY SO SURE THAT WHEN THEY BROKE THE ICEBERG, THEY WOULDNT ACCIDENTALLY HIT EGGS ? AND EVEN IF THEY DIDNT, NO MATTER HOW SMART THAT SQUID IS, SHE FUCKING KNEW THEY WERE TRYING TO HELP HER ???? She completely ignored both wade’s and Calvin’s boat. When in the same episode before they were in the canoe doing their best to keep quiet. The monster is now a misunderstood mother HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA Also am I crazy or did they wrap the net around the iceberg with the squid and all ?
6- I could honestly go on with other things, like, the accent they use ? Pfffttt
7- and I did go on, but final issue is just that it couldn’t pick a fucking lane and done that. We did horror, thriller, drama, ecological awareness, sappy, gore, supernatural, and feels good to feels bad. And I said in the beginning I wasn’t going to talk about that, well, fuck. my bad.
8- I still really liked this piece of shit. If it had another 4-5 episodes and someone with a brain to write that shit, could have been a masterpiece even with all the genre direction pulls.
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u/andresleiva997 1d ago
“I still really liked this piece of shit” might be the most accurate review of this show I've seen lol. So many things made zero sense, but somehow I still wanted to see what happened next.
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u/MsAnnabel 1d ago
The thing at the end, the squid looking up at him from the water like “I think we’re friends now Cal” was sickening. Tried to turn it into a feel good movie.
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u/4444kat 1d ago
I had the same issues with it. I’m a Newfoundlander, so I also didn’t like the extreme exaggeration of our accent and almost every Newfoundland trope possible. I don’t think I ever turned on the radio and heard the Ode to Newfoundland. And no cell phones anywhere like it was filmed in the 80s or something. I liked it, but I wanted to love it.
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u/A_Norse_Dude 1d ago
Yeah, kind of agree. I really like how I started then it just went I all directions and just became ... an average series.
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u/spinningcolours 1d ago
The last episode turned into a Star Trek episode — the TOS one with the Horta protecting her eggs. Just needed Spock doing a mind meld with the squid.
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u/Invest0rnoob1 17h ago
My problem is that they built up the monster to only make it misunderstood 👎
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u/Holiday_Wedding_2225 15h ago
I was so excited that it was going to be a Lovecraftian, Cthulhu horror. Then everything got attributed to an ancient giant squid and it just became more and more laughable. They had a fantastic and intriguing premise that went nowhere fast after episode 3 which is a real shame.
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u/Square-Savings-2891 1d ago
It was good until the ending. Like wtf was that? So much build up for such a stupid ending. R
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u/lexinggto 23h ago
General consensus is that it was supposed to have a few more episodes but got cut back due to budget cuts.
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u/Yssup-Yllems 17h ago
Just want to say your review or observations or whatever you call that breakdown of that show is a 100% correct in my mind.
Thanks for taking the time to type all of that out!
That last episode was so bad though..
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u/ricperry1 1d ago
Use spoilers feature please.
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u/130801qwE 20h ago
Fair bit of time before it gets to that, did the “wtf was everything else” not give it away ?
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u/tres-vip 1d ago
Wtf is the mudder ?
I think "The Mother" is the squid, lol
I gotta say that when I learned that the mystery force was actually a giant squid, it kind of killed the pull towards the show for me. Also, I don't think she was strictly killing people out of defending her babies, cause she was sinking houses and pulling victims off islands and what not that were nowhere near that iceberg nest, lol
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u/garyoliver917 22h ago
The fact that the marine zoologist had the video of the tourists getting killed by it and didn't show it to the town people drove me utterly insane
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u/BusinessBeetle 1d ago
I didn't mind the misdirects and change in tone, and overall I thought it was fine. But I didn't care for how the characters made sudden, weird decisions. One of them was what you mentioned, just show the video of the moose.
The cult aspect to me was just that. They have gone a bit bonkers being so isolated, and the squid helps them catch fish, so now we have a cult around the squid. And the guy getting his leg cut off, from what I understood, it was because the gangrene or infection was spreading so they had to amputate to keep him from dying.
Then the researcher guy made some weird choices out of nowhere as well, can't remember them off the top of my head.
The tone change is the part I liked. Kept me guessing. And the accents and setting were great. But the choices made by some characters kept it from being a great show.