I watched ep1 and enjoyed it somewhat. I appreciated how it was a really well done throwback like retro horror films that are in style now. Thought it was fairly well directed and liked the music. The sci-fi stuff was fun to watch, but I agree with TVC that it's all been there done, that. The people stuff (school kids and such) was mostly kind of dull and mainly just worked out of nostalgia. I'll definitely watch the whole thing through, but probably at a snails pace since I wasn't particularly hooked.
I enjoyed Stranger Things, but felt it kind of unraveled a bit at the end. Still, I prefer shows with shorter seasons. I really feel like the Marvel shows suffer from being longer than 10 or even 8 episodes.
I wish Stranger Things was 30 min episodes instead of 60 min. I think a lot of shows would benefit from shorter tighter runtimes, but somehow the market has decided only comedies are 30 mins and all non-comedies need to be hour long episodes.
Also watched
Twelve Monkeys S2 episode 1. I'd told myself that I wasn't going to watch S2 even though I really enjoyed S1 as ridiculously entertaining popcorn entertainment with time-travel, ninjas, government conspiracies and basically every crazy sci-fi cliche all in a single show; But I wasn't planning on watching it because a time-travel show only works if it's not cancelled so the loop closes in the end and I'm concerned about the show making it to the end. Still I caved and watched ep1 now that S2 finished and yeah, Twelve Monkeys is super entertaining. I think it's really held together because the main two lead guys have this great rapport with each other that's the backbone of the show. It's not high-brow, but it's a real fun guilty pleasure and I guess I'll be watching all of S2 now.
And
Preacher still fucking sucks and is moving at a snails pace and has almost nothing to do with the comic it's based on. I think I know where the final is heading and it's either going to finally re-align the show with the comics or just completely set the show in the wrong tone even further. For those who've read the comics:
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Jesse is going to call god down from heaven to show the people of the town that god exists. I have a feeling this is what the show is using to get god out of heaven because unlike the comic it seems he never left. So he'll use Genesis on god and then god probably either runs away or smites him and he's off to find god either out of remorse or for punishment. We'll see how this plays out in the finale.