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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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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