turgay-yoo-846-703785 Ever since Lost mindless and usually pointless riddles have become an accepted tool in story telling. Well, it is not a good tool. Particularly if it is used to make up for the fact that your narrative is boring and little. Here the author and director Chris Carter throws in all the proved elements of conventional TV shows in the pot and stirred well. Much helps much wise. It doesn't. It is also very bothersome that nothing is very realistic. Five people trapped in a garage and they cannot open a flimsy gate. Come on!Doors don't open because of power outage. But real life they are battery powered because power outages in fact happen even without supernatural intervention. And on goes the list. It is simply sloppily researched. In 'Halt and Catch Fire' one can see how proper recherché goes. Every detail has been taken the time to get right there. And a story CAN be fantastic and plausible at the same time. So what about the cast. Aldis Hodge, is trying his best to make his character a believable, realistic person. Unfortunately his role - at least in the first episode - seems to be the indoctrinator of political correctness. So the black guy has to be the only one with common sense and reminds us how flawed the legal system is. Well, it is, but what has that got to do with anything in this context. Why bring it up?External reasons I guess. Statements of political correctness generally do not improve a story if you just add them for wholesomeness. If I was black, I'd find it offensive, but what do I know about being black in the US. At least he is in my opinion the most realistic character in the show. That however is not owed to his ethnicity but his acting.Alas there is only so much you can do with such a script. Everybody else is basically free of personality and reduced to stereotypes. The french mommy (Louise Monot I think) is the worst. And too skinny. Why does the director try to bore us to death with yet another parent just trying to get home to her family. This has been done, the t-shirts have been made and yes, they are completely out of fashion for 5 years now.So here is what I predict. The storytelling will be very foreseeable because it is so heavy on the stereotypes. But in this kind of show lives from surprising twists to keep even an audience of lowered expectations from dying from boredom. How do you do that? Easy. By defying the rules of logic and the laws of physics. So it is going to be an even wackier narrative and over time it is going to be harder to believe. A little like in the X-Files only quicker and with a lesser cast. One can tell by the choice of cliffhanger how it is going to be from hereon out. But let's see how the next episode goes. There is no way but up.

bebopfreak77 I have watched the first show and I'm HOOKED! What my question is.......... When is Amazon going to pick up the rest of the season or is there another place I can watch this show. I seen where it said it's starting in February of 2014 on Syfi and I am yet to see it. Can anyone help me out where the rest of the season(s) are at? I have looked on Netflix come back to amazon prime one a week to see if it's bed hooked up and even checked my Syfi channel on direct TV weekly.Any help I can get from any one I will be very grateful. I love theses types of movies and by the looks of the first movie this one is not going to be a let down. Many thanks to anyone who can answer this question for me in advance!

Surecure The After is a lacklustre knock off of LOST with nowhere near the level of suspense or character development. It tries to go for the strange-factor in so many ways but comes off as if writer/creator Chris Carter (best known for the X-Files) simply saved up a bunch of weird ideas and decided to throw them together without tying a single one of them sensibly to a plot. As such, the concept comes off as if he's firing in all directions and not even sure what he's firing at.The first 15 minutes of the show are ridiculously boring. I have a hard time believing that nobody read the pilot script and after 10 pages didn't ask, "Is something going to happen?" Nothing on screen adds to the characters any way other than artificially and what little incidences that do occur are not enough to drive interest. For a show that clearly wants to be suspenseful, there is in fact no suspense.That being said, one does get the feeling somebody along the way realized this fact as the first 30 seconds is just a montage of weird images edited in such a way as to jar the audience at the start. But it comes off as completely contrived. And then the show goes downhill from there. It's just puzzling that the producers didn't take that as a hint in reading the first script.The most disappointing element is that most of the characters are either clichés or lame attempts at originality. The fish out of water protagonist who just wants to see her family, the wrongfully accused black man, the insecure female cop, the rogue hick, the wealthy old lady, the slick talking lawyer and his supermodel girlfriend, and... a clown? You cannot make this nonsense up.As for the meat of the script, the dialogue is boring and the plot turns are glacial at best, all leading up to a cliffhanger. Or at least attempting to lead up to a cliffhanger. The big conceptual reveal in the end only starts to develop 10 to 15 minutes before the credits. There's no real hint of it throughout the show which makes it seem as if either the ending concept was tacked on or everything before it was just throw together because Carter knew a 15 minute show wouldn't fly.But that isn't even my biggest complaint. Anybody who had a problem with the notorious underwear scene in Star Trek: Into Darkness is going to be rolling their eyes with this pilot. Carter has taken the cake on gratuitous and unnecessary use of a woman as eye candy. It's really sad and in fact quite hypocritical considering the protagonist (who is an actor) in the start of the show gets her nose bent out of shape at a script read-thru that depicts a woman as a sex toy. It's like Carter was making a statement against such sexism in film and television only to employ it ten times worse himself.It is disheartening that Chris Carter after all this time can't come up with another decent concept. The X-Files and Millennium were way ahead of their time in their initial run. Harsh Realm was a laudable attempt. But ever since -- whether it be the Lone Gunmen or the second X- Files film -- Carter seems to have given up on perfecting his work before putting it out there. The After is nothing more than another misguided attempt that should have been either work-shopped further or rejected.I honestly have to wonder who at Amazon green-lit this series. As a writer who has read other original series concepts, it blows my mind that drivel like this gets a go-ahead while other, more original and interesting series ideas are left gathering dust.

mallardsnest The show had great potential, unfortunately they did a horrible job. In the main group of survivors they have - a hooker, an black escaped prisoner(innocent of all charges of course), an Hispanic female cop, a lawyer, an actress (a terrible one at that), a rich old white woman, an abusive alcoholic Irish man, and to top it off, a gay clown.Of course they bicker amongst themselves constantly, much like Walking Dead. I'm not quite sure why all writers think that the end of the world scenarios will bring out the worst in people. Maybe they should start from scratch with a bit more imagination. The actors could've phoned it in, they did such a bad job.