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* UnfortunateImplications: The whole conspiracy is replete with this in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic (with the show aired in the middle of, but which was developed and filmed before). As a conspiracy thriller where teachers and doctors compete in a (theoretically liberal) conspiracy to reshape the world, and especially change people's attitudes towards fertility, was inadvertently much, much harder to swallow in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, especially because doctors and teachers were two of the main professions most ravaged by Covid deaths, and the spread of misinformation about the vaccine.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An extremely deadly SyntheticPlague that was created as a FalseFlagOperation to manipulate a population into taking a vaccine that would sterilize them -- and added details like the conspiracy in particular targeting schools, with the wilful and enthusiastic cooperation of doctors -- played ''extremely'' differently, and much harsher, when the show aired at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The whole conspiracy is replete with this in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic (with the show aired in the middle of, but which was developed and filmed before). As a conspiracy thriller where teachers and doctors compete in a (theoretically liberal) conspiracy to reshape the world, and especially change people's attitudes towards fertility, was inadvertently much, much harder to swallow in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, especially because doctors and teachers were two of the main professions most ravaged by Covid deaths, and the spread of misinformation about the vaccine.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The British series was already dark enough, with an excess of violence that sounded gratuitous at some moments, and with almost all the characters morally ambiguous, but the American remake managed to increase these aspects even more than they already were, [[spoiler:including the fate of the CanonForeigner Sam and the AdaptationalVillainy of Jessica Hyde.]] In addition to the poor timing of showing the series in the middle of a pandemic, it is not difficult to understand why so many professional critics and viewers were uncomfortable with the project.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The British series was already dark enough, with an excess of violence that sounded gratuitous at some moments, and with almost all the characters morally ambiguous, but the American remake managed to increase these aspects even more than they already were, [[spoiler:including the fate of the CanonForeigner Sam and the AdaptationalVillainy of Jessica Hyde.]] In addition to the poor timing of showing the series in the middle of a pandemic, it is not difficult to understand why so many professional critics and viewers were uncomfortable with the project.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The foley people apparently got confused in episode two. Arby is shown eating raisins early in the episode, which is silent, as you'd expect. Later, he starts munching on Chex Mix, making crunching sounds as he chews it. Later still, he goes back to eating raisins, which now makes the Chex Mix crunching sound.
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** The foley people apparently got confused in episode two. Arby is shown eating chocolate-covered raisins early in the episode, which is silent, as you'd expect. Later, he starts munching on Chex Mix, making crunching sounds as he chews it. Later still, he goes back to eating raisins, which now makes the Chex Mix crunchingsound.sound.
** There's a lengthy shot of [[spoiler:Samantha]]'s corpse in episode 4 that is clearly a dummy.
** The foley people apparently got confused in episode two. Arby is shown eating chocolate-covered raisins early in the episode, which is silent, as you'd expect. Later, he starts munching on Chex Mix, making crunching sounds as he chews it. Later still, he goes back to eating raisins, which now makes the Chex Mix crunching
** There's a lengthy shot of [[spoiler:Samantha]]'s corpse in episode 4 that is clearly a dummy.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Jessica's cold-blooded and pointless murder of [[spoiler:Samantha]], one of her own allies, can make it hard for viewers to ever sympathize with her in spite of the show's attempts to climb out of the hole.
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* TooCoolToLive: Almost accepted in-universe of [[spoiler:Sam. She's]] funny, cool, and decisive, which is also why [[spoiler:Jessica]] executes [[spoiler:her]].
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jessica Hyde was already morally ambiguous on the show, showing no hesitation or regret about killing her enemies and showing abusive behavior towards her allies. But how exactly did the writers of this remake still hope that Jessica would have the viewer's sympathy after [[spoiler:killing Sam for such a futile reason?]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jessica Hyde was already morally ambiguous on the show, showing no hesitation or regret about killing her enemies and showing abusive behavior towards her allies. But how exactly did the writers of this remake still hope that Jessica would have the viewer's sympathy after [[spoiler:killing Sam for such a futile reason?]]
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* TooCoolToLive: Almost accepted in-universe of [[spoiler:Sam. She's]] funny, cool, Gillian Flynn admitted that [[spoiler:Samantha]] was written to die, and decisive, which is also why [[spoiler:Jessica]] executes [[spoiler:her]].
that after seeing the actor's great performance, she considered bringing her back as an identical twin. Given the show's theme of identical twins, this actually wouldn't have been that implausible.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jessica Hydewas already is supposed to shock the viewers with her very unheroic murder of [[spoiler:Samantha]] and then slowly gain back our sympathy over the course of the season. But the murder is so pointless and cruel, with Jessica never showing the slightest bit of regret, that it's quite hard to ever feel sorry for her. It even makes the rest of the cast less sympathetic, watching them seem to completely forget about the murder of their friend even while standing mere feet away from the corpse. None of them ever confront Jessica about it later, though Ian ''does'' confront her over the death of [[spoiler:Artemis]], a morally ambiguous on the show, showing no hesitation or regret about killing her enemies and showing abusive behavior towards her allies. But how exactly did the writers {{Mercy Kill}}ing of this remake still hope that Jessica would have the viewer's sympathy after [[spoiler:killing Sam for such a futile reason?]]person he never knew.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jessica Hyde
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The British series was already dark enough, with an excess of violence that sounded gratuitous at some moments, and with almost all the characters morally ambiguous, but the American remake managed to increase these aspects even more than they already were, [[spoiler:including the fate of the CanonForeign CanonForeigner Sam and the AdaptationalVillainy of Jessica Hyde.]] In addition to the poor timing of showing the series in the middle of a pandemic, it is not difficult to understand why so many professional critics and viewers were uncomfortable with the project.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The British series was already dark enough, with an excess of violence that sounded gratuitous at some moments, and with almost all the characters morally ambiguous, but the American remake managed to increase these aspects even more than they already were, [[spoiler:including the fate of the CanonForeign Sam and the AdaptationalVillainy of Jessica Hyde.]] In addition to the poor timing of showing the series in the middle of a pandemic, it is not difficult to understand why so many professional critics and viewers were uncomfortable with the project.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Jessica Hyde was already morally ambiguous on the show, showing no hesitation or regret about killing her enemies and showing abusive behavior towards her allies. But how exactly did the writers of this remake still hope that Jessica would have the viewer's sympathy after [[spoiler:killing Sam for such a futile reason?]]
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* TooCoolToLive: Almost accepted in-universe of [[spoiler:Sam. She's]] funny, cool, and decisive, which is also why [[spoiler:Jessica]] executes [[spoiler:her]].
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show was instantly dated on the day it came out by having characters reference recent pandemics, but not Covid-19, which struck while the show was still in production and was vastly more deadly than any of those named.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The series, as well as its original source material, has a pandemic as a central threat. Development of both shows predates the Covid-19 pandemic that was in full swing by the time this series aired. Prime Video even shows a disclaimer before each episode stating that the show is not based on a real pandemic and that the subject matter may be upsetting.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show was instantly dated on the day it came out by having characters reference recent pandemics, but not Covid-19, which struck while the show was still in production and was vastly more deadly than any of those named.named.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The foley people apparently got confused in episode two. Arby is shown eating raisins early in the episode, which is silent, as you'd expect. Later, he starts munching on Chex Mix, making crunching sounds as he chews it. Later still, he goes back to eating raisins, which now makes the Chex Mix crunching sound.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The foley people apparently got confused in episode two. Arby is shown eating raisins early in the episode, which is silent, as you'd expect. Later, he starts munching on Chex Mix, making crunching sounds as he chews it. Later still, he goes back to eating raisins, which makes the Chex Mix crunching sound.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The series, as well as its original source material, has a pandemic as a central threat. Development of both predate the Covid-19 pandemic that was in full swing by the time the series aired.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The series, as well as its original source material, has a pandemic as a central threat. Development of both predate shows predates the Covid-19 pandemic that was in full swing by the time the this series aired.aired. Prime Video even shows a disclaimer before each episode stating that the show is not based on a real pandemic and that the subject matter may be upsetting.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show was instantly dated on the day it came out by having characters reference recent pandemics, but not Covid-19, which struck while the show was still in production and was vastly more deadly than any of those named.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show was instantly dated on the day it came out by having characters reference recent pandemics, but not Covid-19, which struck while the show was still in production and was vastly more deadly than any of those named.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The series, as well as its original source material, have has a pandemic as a central threat. Development of both predate the Covid-19 pandemic that was in full swing by the time the series aired.
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