Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
I'll say this about El Rey's From Dusk Till Dawn series: It feels better now that, in Season 2, it's no longer aping/adapting movie at all. It's beholden to nothing except the story it wants to tell. That doesn't mean it's now good all of a sudden, it's just inherently more interesting.
Season 1 was a 10-epispode run that started out viable, but then quickly collapsed under the weight of both carrying the film and its own budgetary issues. After the first episode took the film's opening Earl McGraw scene and extended it into 44 minutes, the pattern seemed set. For instance, another full episode was devoted to the Geckos taking the Fuller family hostage at the motel. And another to the Geckos trying to cross the border in the RV. Short, memorable moments within the movie were being needlessly expanded upon.
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I'll say this about El Rey's From Dusk Till Dawn series: It feels better now that, in Season 2, it's no longer aping/adapting movie at all. It's beholden to nothing except the story it wants to tell. That doesn't mean it's now good all of a sudden, it's just inherently more interesting.
Season 1 was a 10-epispode run that started out viable, but then quickly collapsed under the weight of both carrying the film and its own budgetary issues. After the first episode took the film's opening Earl McGraw scene and extended it into 44 minutes, the pattern seemed set. For instance, another full episode was devoted to the Geckos taking the Fuller family hostage at the motel. And another to the Geckos trying to cross the border in the RV. Short, memorable moments within the movie were being needlessly expanded upon.
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