Just got into this series (as usual for CatBus, long after the cool kids).

I cannot emphasize enough how much a disagree with people who dismiss the nostalgic/homage angle of this series as superficial or inconsequential next to the meat of the plot/writing/acting/etc. Atmosphere/tone can be everything, and this series (at least through Season 1, I haven’t hit 2 yet*) absolutely fucking nails it. The pacing isn’t eighties pacing, I’ll grant you (it’s not modern either, it’s more like nineties X-Files era pacing, so it still works), but everything else goes very far to recreate that eighties vibe. It just feels so right, and that must take a ton of effort, and I appreciate every bit of it.

Story, acting, plot. Yeah, okay, IMO in this regard it’s not always spectacular. But it’s certainly engaging enough, and it’s often still quite good. Maybe I travel in the wrong circles, but I didn’t have high expectations for this series, and it easily beat them all. We’ll see about Season 2.

* Because I still watch Game of Thrones via Netflix DVD mail-service and I like being a year behind the rest of the world, dammit!