Station Eleven

If only the rest of the show was like the first episode. But no. What a waste of money doing this.

Criminally underappreciated by this site. You truly cannot judge this without watching the entire thing, which is the case with most miniseries, but especially the case here. Everything comes together by the end, and even the "worst" parts of the show end up being crucial and having much more weight when viewed as part of the larger whole. That said, the second episode is by far the worst one. The story just requires a lot of work to be done in order to get to where it's going, and that, unfortunately, means you have to have a little faith in the payoff to make it through the beginning of what appears to be a much less interesting setting and narrative with the second episode. It takes until around episode 5 for the true payoff to start shining through. If you liked The Leftovers, have faith and stick with this! One of the very best miniseries I have ever seen.