Dr. Not Yet Dr. Ag said:
Proposition Joe said:
In what ways did they move the narrative along?
Claude leaving town is an important plot point, as now they have to go find him, given that they believe he is the next victim.
They didn't stop following Holly and Jack because they were "too far ahead", they stopped because they could no longer track them given that their phones were ditched/destroyed. I'm not sure why you'd consider either of those scenes filler, they were both necessary scenes given previous and future events.
I'm doing my best not to piss people off and bash at every turn to if I'm getting annoying just ignore me.
That being said...
They stopped because as they put it they have a "90 minute head start" -- which didn't seem to matter when they set out after them. Ignoring that they went as far as to say they could ping the cell phones to an exact location (rather than just a tower), which isn't realistic -- they specifically stated they had pinged BOTH cell phones, it's how they knew Jack and Holly were together.
Holly's phone was destroyed. Jack's wasn't. They could have "pinged" it just like they did before and continued to follow the two people they assume are still together, one of which is in grave danger. But nope. They decide to head back home -- where lo and behold Holly is. It just didn't make any sense for a detective to do... but this is the same detective that looked at two near-identical sketches of a murder suspect and instead of looking for that suspect, accused his wife of having a nightmare.
I'm going to assume the Holly/Jack driving scene was shoe-horned in there specifically to give Holly a reason to try and "save" Jack later on in the story since she now knows he's in pain. I'd be fine with that if this was TD1 Harrelson and McConaghey back and forth dialogue in a car where you are hanging on every word. But this... wasn't that.
Even the dialogue isn't meshing. Holly is stating that this thing is scared of her because it doesn't like to be known and prefers to stay in hiding and that she poses a threat as she might expose it. Except of course the scene where Jason Bateman's doppelganger *looks directly at the security camera and then flips them off*.
There simply wasn't 10 hours worth of material from the book and it shows. If they had to do 10 episodes, Episodes 1-3 and their reveals should have been paced out far better. Seems like we're getting Great episodes 1-3, filler for episodes 4-8, and then I'm hoping for a decent finale.
