Admittedly the first half of the first episode was ok and promising in a horror movie kind of way. However the series declines rapidly in every respect towards the end of the pilot. I have never been so disappointed by an HBO series as this. I couldn't stay awake because it was so boring, irritating, forced and contrived. The script and acting were so inferior that it went straight into the streaming trash can. Even Pascale's performance was sub par. Avoid it like the plague or at least like a fungus. I never knew a series could take such a serious subject as a global pandemic and really succeed in undermining the seriousness of it. Shockingly poor writing, directing ,casting and acting.