I see the show s 8.5 on imdb, and 90something on rottentomatoes. I am at S2E10 right now and I am really fucking tired of the "That was all imagination" shtick. Is this somehow enjoyable? Will it stop in future?

Like the first half of S2 was "Hey, I am trying to get rid of my father in my head, got myself a friend, doing stuff on schedule, being harrassed by couple of people here and there" Then it switches to "Oh, these people are not good actually", then it switches "Remember these people? - They are actually real people/workers of the jail I been all that time in." Like, okay, I get it. Elliot is mentally unstable. But why does it have to be "Haha, we got you again. This is not real!" all the time?

[–] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

The way I see it, is that Elliot is the narrator of this story, so that storyline comes with everything pretty much as he sees it when he sees it, which is pretty jarring sometimes considering that he's fuckin crazy. It does make for a tough watch in season 2, being fully honest. I was wondering why they are doing all this crazy shit all the time, not progressing the story at all and was definitely like wtf am I watching. It felt slow and tedious, almost like I was watching a totally different show all of a sudden.

But I kept on with season 3 because my curiosity had to know what happened, and it started picking up again. Then I realized it makes a lot of sense to tell the story in this way and take the time to do it like that so you can kind of fully be in the journey with Elliot. I appreciated season 2 a little more in hindsight after I saw it that way.