Snayhill24

Loses steam after every episode. Most of the good writing is in the first 3ish episodes. The ending fell flat to me and the israeli guy couldn't act for shit

If the goal was to tell the Odyssey with a postmodern lens that strips the original of its creativity and whimsy and better suits the corporate minimalism of today, Nolan has succeeded. A filmmaking feat at the cost of being a sad timepiece for the sanitized present day. Not to mention, a severe lack of Hellenism that doesn't sing it's inferiority. Its best themes get severed by the amount of time you get to spend with the characters that actually tie everything together; the ones without names and stories. As is Nolan's usual style, you don't really get to spend much time with the main characters, but the ones whose deaths define Odyesseus' guilt (and by extention the guilt of all survivors in history) get no screen time or thought. They arent even characters; rather, a nebulous horde of men that is portrayed as vengeful after death. And yet, we are expected to feel the weight of Odyesseus' guilt when it doesn't even feel like he bears it himself in his own story?