Dispatches from Elsewhere

AMC | Release Date: March 1, 2020

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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AnotherUserNameJun 11, 2020

Intriguing curiosity What a difficult show to rate. I'm putting it at a 6 because I found the show mostly positive. Quickly, I think you will probably enjoy the show if you like other shows like Amazon's "Undone" where reality is inIntriguing curiosity What a difficult show to rate. I'm putting it at a 6 because I found the show mostly positive. Quickly, I think you will probably enjoy the show if you like other shows like Amazon's "Undone" where reality is in question. You probably won't like it if you like all the questions and threads being tied up neatly by the end (or 4th wall breaking experiences). Overall premise is four protagonists get pulled into a mysterious game. Is it a game? Of course that's the question. Each of the first four episodes inviting you to see the game through the lens of each protagonist before pulling out wider as we follow along, trying to understand truth from fiction. For me it fell down in some places, while excelling in allowing you to be able to latch on to the real struggles that each one of these four individuals experience. Whether that's the empty / lonely Peter, the fearful transgender Simone, the detached / cerebral Fredwynn, or the caregiver Janice. The acting is excellent, especially Jason Segel's portrayal of Peter and Eve Lindley as Simone. Where it failed for me is that the show feels like two different things by the finale. First an interesting exploration of a real world event that apparently took place some years ago, while at the end becoming something of a self-reflective vanity project for Jason Segel. The message is over all hopeful but uncomfortably forced when it arrives in the final episode. Funnily I think if the final episode had been left off the show would have ended satisfactorily and even have some room to do another season if someone really wanted that. To be fair this is one of those shows that really only makes sense to be one season. Overall I found it interesting. I don't want to say ground breaking, although the original game/experience clearly was. It's better than average but also decidedly lacking which is why I give it a 6 out of 10.… Expand

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Davrosdaleks1Apr 27, 2020

The first season of Dispatches from Elsewhere, an AMC anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel, is about a team of four people entering an alternate reality game. However, is everything as it appears? This is a very uniqueThe first season of Dispatches from Elsewhere, an AMC anthology series created by and starring Jason Segel, is about a team of four people entering an alternate reality game. However, is everything as it appears? This is a very unique series.

This is one of those "mystery box" shows, but rather than be a story with life-and-death circumstances, this is a dramedy about the human experience and universalism. All four leads are likable. There are clever visual choices strewn throughout, including a couple that are downright brilliant.

To be honest, it is the center seven episodes where this season really shines. The show doesn't kick into high gear until the third episode. (The first two episodes heavily focus on the characters of Peter (Segel) and Simone (Eve Lindley). While they are both interesting characters, I do feel that there are times that they are given more screentime than the writers have to say about them.)

The ending is going to be very controversial. I'm not talking in a Games of Thrones way, though. I did not get what I wanted, but I respect the boldness of it. It's definitely different.

The cast is all great, my favorites being Sally Field, André Benjamin (also known as André 3000), and Richard E. Grant as both the narrator and organizer of the game. I particularly think the latter two may have given some of their best work.

Though there were things I'd like to do differently as a whole I was impressed by this. This won't be for everyone, but I think it's worth giving a shot at least to see the very first scene.… Expand

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Nobilis1984Jun 1, 2020

I don't know what to make of it. On the one hand, it is something different and fresh. But then again a strange series that you don't quite understand.
I can’t classify that correctly.

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imhervJun 22, 2020

The Dispatches from Elsewhere series is a mixture of fear and the circumstances that each person can deal with a single problem, in the series, we see ourselves as characters to know how far each of the group goes. Courage, daring, fear,The Dispatches from Elsewhere series is a mixture of fear and the circumstances that each person can deal with a single problem, in the series, we see ourselves as characters to know how far each of the group goes. Courage, daring, fear, loss, all of this has an advantage or a disadvantage when it comes to group work, and the series sends this message indirectly, that help and humanity can still exist even with a problem bigger to solve.… Expand

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