The Path: What the Fire Throws

March 30, 2016 1:26 PM - Season 1, Episode 1

Welcome to the Meyerist Movement, which is totally not a cult at all. Like, what, just because we plaster an emblem of a giant glowing eye all over everything, that means we're a cult?
posted by showbiz_liz (1 comment total)

So, The Path! Starring that guy who was in that show where his evil genius mentor gradually dragged him into morally compromised darkness and murder while he trembled about it like a beautiful delicate flower, and also that other guy who -

Anyway.

This episode kind of suffers from Pilot Syndrome, and I thought the pacing and nonlinear structuring were trying to do too many things at once. I get what they were going for with it, but it didn't quite work for me. But! The acting is great, and I really appreciate the effort they're putting into keeping the Meyerist Movement from being just a stereotype of a creepy cult.

(Also that Plato's Cave scene was awesome, even if it was a bit on-the-nose.)
posted by showbiz_liz at 1:55 PM on March 30, 2016 [2 favorites]