I'm probably in the minority here, and that's fine - we can't all agree all the time. But I'm just about to give up on this show, if ep 8 doesn't pick up the pace.

It's one thing to take your time to build up your characters, and it's a whole other thing to waste 2 and a half episodes of your already short 9 episode run on storylines that go nowhere. Yes I'm looking at you, episodes 3 and 7.

This show started stellar, but then went way down in episode 3 with an extra long episode that basically has very limited connection to the main plot thread - the characters in this ep are mentioned once in ep 4, and then never again. And then in ep 7, we go on the long flashback run that barely adds anything to the main storyline.

What exactly is the point of these detours? They don't actually add that much to the world building (that we didn't already know) nor to the characters and their relationships.

This is only my point of view of course, and I'm sure many of you may disagree. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm just about done with this show. It had so much potential, it sucks to see it wasted.

PS: I didn't play the games, so I have no clue how they tie up to the show.

Edit: subtracted 1 star after I saw the finale. Please give me my time back.