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User Reviews for: Echoes

Dudaai
CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  11 months ago
I don't really know what to make of this show or how to rate it. Two identical twin sisters who constantly swap their lives back and forth, all apparently because of some incident that triggered their bizarre behaviour. The story starts off OK, to such an extent that I thought it might actually be good, for the first 3-4 episodes but in the later episodes, where they actually start to explain (some!) of the story it starts to tail off drastically. The acting isn't particularly good, which doesn't help, but there are just too many things that just aren't explained. At first we are led to think that there's some reason for their behaviour and some sinister secret that the story is heading towards but as the story unfolds there are just too many threads that are revealed only to go nowhere. It then changed from being confusing because likely there's some plot and a reason to just plain confusing where the confusion, rather than the story (which largely gets ignored and dropped mid-stream), becomes the whole point of the show, such that, other than the confusion over who is who at any given time, there's no actual point to watching as it constantly goes nowhere. The show was definitely at least 2 episodes too long and identity switching just isn't a compelling enough story in its own right to make for good viewing, that coupled with the lame acting and poor writing (the incompetence of the Sheriff's Dept in the final episode is beyond belief, along with the totally eyebrow raising vanishing and re-appearance of one or both of the twins with zero thought given to how credible it is) means that I certainly won't be around for any season 2! I find it also quite surprising that for a mini-series, the ending seems to be a set up for a season 2, either that or ending was even more lame than I thought!
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quicksite
/10  2 years ago
Truly terrible story and writer. Wishes she were writing like Veena Sud for "The Killing". But Vanessa Gazy is no Veena Sud. Boring, hush tones acting, poorly executed premise involving allegedly identical twin sisters. Only they're clearly not identical as we see again and again thru flashbacks. Sadly the one who's not present tense and rarely on screen is the pretty one.

There's weird sexual craving of the 2 sisters as they appear partially nude (shoulders and neck). They flop around the plotting. The ridiculous breathy acting of the lead. The terrible "I am a total dork" acting of her husband in L.A. -- they keep dialing him back in to basically just say, uh huh, don't be too quick, there are other explanations, be careful, okay good night, hey should I could out there? Too dumb to recognize his wife is wrong in the head and needs his on-site support.

Dolls and Chucky, and checking for diaries, checking phone records, the weirdo brother in-law, the daughter who one minute recognizes mommy, next minute says you've got your braids wrong.

Honestly the only compelling performance in the entire show are the oversize eyes of the town's sheriff.

Lastly, the ratings engines are all wrong with this show because they're sourcing from a year 2001 series of the same name.

I had to bail at 3/4 of way in to Episode 2. It's just not worth my time to go through this narrative torture any further. But hey, nice marketing!
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