Come and Get Me
- Episode aired Oct 7, 2019
- 40m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
698
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The Terminal Islanders return home to find that things have changed since they left. The Nakayamas, still tense from the pain they've inflicted on one another, must come together to battle t... Read allThe Terminal Islanders return home to find that things have changed since they left. The Nakayamas, still tense from the pain they've inflicted on one another, must come together to battle the spirit that threatens their future.The Terminal Islanders return home to find that things have changed since they left. The Nakayamas, still tense from the pain they've inflicted on one another, must come together to battle the spirit that threatens their future.
Francisco Trujillo Avalos-Davidson
- Father Ysidro
- (as Francisco Trujillo)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Chester went outside, the Bristish man mentioned that "everyone is celebrating" due to the success of Little Boy. "Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 during World War II. It was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It weighted 9,700 pounds (4,400 kg), had a length of 10 feet (3.0 m), and a diameter of 28 inches (71 cm). It was filled with Uranium-235, which weighted 141 lbs (64kg). The explosion had a blast yield of 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ). There were a total of 26 made. Then, on August 9, 1945, U.S. forces dropped "Fat Man," a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki. Together, the two bombs dropped in Japan would kill more than 300,000 people, including those who died instantly and those who perished from radiation and other lingering effects of the explosions. Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's unconditional surrender via radio address on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to a close.
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The Terror: Infamy continues to rush through its final stretch
When I started this season, I liked the slow pace of the show. I liked how it seemed to ramp up to something meaningful, something congruent in its storytelling. When episode 4 rolled its credits, I was completely on board with the show, it felt like a natural evolution of the story, a mid-season-stinger to set up the progression of the show. Episodes 5 and 6 deepened the mythology and while they made some very apparent logistical and narrative shortcuts, it still felt like this story was going somewhere, be it with its main and its secondary characters. Alas, it never did. Now, after three frustratingly paced and narratively jumbled episodes in a row, Terror: Infamy simply cannot make up for all its squandered potential with just one final episode.
The season´s demise lies within the incomprehensible descision to constantly change location while the B-stories get resolved like marks on a checklist. The whole camp-storyline, beautifully set up over the first four episodes, gets treated like an afterhtought and is never allowed after episode 5 to even build something akin to atmosphere again. It degenerates to a cardboard-background. Same with the characters´ stories there: Amy, Bowen, Ken and their struggle? Resolved in a rush without thought and clear narrative motives and logic. No stop is made to even take the time to look at what the characters are feeling, a severe violation of the premise of a character-driven horror-drama.
Chester´s war-story? Same thing. Storlylines get introduced and discontinued as the show pleases, without any sensible pacing. It´s so plot- instead of character-driven it begs the question if the writers had to finish the last stretch of the series under severe timeconstraints. Stopping and slowing down to see a transition of the lives of the Nakayamas and how they react to their new-old surroundings? Nope, there has to be an excruciating timejump. Setting up Yuko´s powers resonably well enough to just flip everything on its head in three episodes so that no clear rule is discernable anymore? Sure thing. Introducing a whole new swath of characters the viewer isn´t having time to care about? That as well.
Why Infamy started to rush so much in its last episodes is beyond me. The strength of the more than solid setup, a very enjoyable middle, interesting characters -even though their stories get woefully undercooked endings, it seems- and the strength of the performances still make it a decent watch, despite the narrrative cohesion completely going all over the place.
In the end, it´s still not bad, never will be. It has too many qualities to show for, too many memorable moments to remember . Yet in its final stretch, it has become clear that the beautiful mess of The Terror: Infamy is more mess than beauty.
The season´s demise lies within the incomprehensible descision to constantly change location while the B-stories get resolved like marks on a checklist. The whole camp-storyline, beautifully set up over the first four episodes, gets treated like an afterhtought and is never allowed after episode 5 to even build something akin to atmosphere again. It degenerates to a cardboard-background. Same with the characters´ stories there: Amy, Bowen, Ken and their struggle? Resolved in a rush without thought and clear narrative motives and logic. No stop is made to even take the time to look at what the characters are feeling, a severe violation of the premise of a character-driven horror-drama.
Chester´s war-story? Same thing. Storlylines get introduced and discontinued as the show pleases, without any sensible pacing. It´s so plot- instead of character-driven it begs the question if the writers had to finish the last stretch of the series under severe timeconstraints. Stopping and slowing down to see a transition of the lives of the Nakayamas and how they react to their new-old surroundings? Nope, there has to be an excruciating timejump. Setting up Yuko´s powers resonably well enough to just flip everything on its head in three episodes so that no clear rule is discernable anymore? Sure thing. Introducing a whole new swath of characters the viewer isn´t having time to care about? That as well.
Why Infamy started to rush so much in its last episodes is beyond me. The strength of the more than solid setup, a very enjoyable middle, interesting characters -even though their stories get woefully undercooked endings, it seems- and the strength of the performances still make it a decent watch, despite the narrrative cohesion completely going all over the place.
In the end, it´s still not bad, never will be. It has too many qualities to show for, too many memorable moments to remember . Yet in its final stretch, it has become clear that the beautiful mess of The Terror: Infamy is more mess than beauty.
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- nkohl-84918
- Oct 9, 2019
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- Runtime40 minutes
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