Concern

I just started watching this show, and went through the first season in a week and a half (or so) time span. I did this, I admit, largely because a number of people had recommended it recently, and I’m bored with life as it were.

I like it. The fact that a lot of the show is an excuse to go into the deep, and sometimes surprising, back-stories of the characters is fine with me — the world these people inhabit certainly feels rich and unpredictable enough to be real. Now, the rest of the show seems to be nothing more than a long series of MacGuffins, lots of things that don’t make much sense, but are compelling enough to make you want to know just WTF is going on.

It’s rather a lot like Twin Peaks, except instead of Laura Palmer’s murderer it’s a bunch of maybe-supernatural, maybe-technological, creepy and dangerous things going on. I guess the writers of this show will eventually start bringing answers to questions, which killed TP, but I have hopes that the characters will remain interesting.

Anyway, I dig deep back-stories and character development, and slight-of-hand what-did-I-just-see (and mistakes with nitroglycerin) is fun too.