The Rig - Amazon’s supernatural shenanigans

[Vespa Alex]

Just watched the first episode, and it’s really very effective. 

Only five more I think, so won’t take long to get through.  
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14273790/

[Monkeyboy]

I've watched three episodes. It's complete bunk, but I'm enjoying it a lot.

[gone fishin]

This looks like a cheaper (and worse) version of a Gerard Butler film. 

[NecroMorrius]

Christ they couldn’t have made a more boring TV show if they tried. After two and a half episodes I skipped straight to the last episode and still nothing was happening. 

[jonamok]

Watched 2. Struggling to find the will. Best character so far is the seagull. It’s like a Channel 5 tentpole show with ITV money and script.

[Captain Novaforce]

Ah that's a shame, the trailer looked like Event Horizon in the north sea 

[TarquinTheHappyMouse]

Quite amusing if you've worked offshore, captures the divisions pretty well.

 

Seagull fully hamming it up ftw

[Monkeyspill]

The CGI is a bit shit so far (20 minutes in).

[AlexM]

I fell asleep watching it, that never usually happens - it truly is a special show. 

[Monkeyboy]

I’ve managed to stay awake, wondering if another GoT or CoD alumni will turn up.

[memories]

Wife and I watched this over the last few night, bit of nonsense fluff really.

 

Some absolutely shocking CGI in the last episode as well.

 

Enjoyed how a lot of the characters were named after North Sea rigs 

 

Fulmar, Magnus, Hutton, Alwyn, Heather, Dunlin & Murchison all stuck out, I've done work on at least half of them at some point in my career.

[Haribokart]

Just now, memories said:

Fulmar, Magnus, Hutton, Alwyn, Heather, Dunlin & Murchison all stuck out, I've done work on at least half of them at some point in my career.

 

Ah, memories.

[tronied]

(Spoiler free)

 

I watched this over the last couple of evenings and thought it was a mixed bag. The first episode was pretty good at drawing you in, with the next couple setting up the characters / mystery. It gave me some The Thing vibes what with being cut off from the outside world and not knowing who was affected.

 

Unfortunately it took a serious downturn in the mid to later episodes. As has been mentioned, the CGI goes from bareable to awful. They obviously ran out of budget for the big (anti)climax. The ending was pretty meh and left me pretty unsatisfied thinking "was that it?".

 

You do end up watching these things and regretting having spent 6 hours of your life watching it. It started well but it's just a shame it didn't really go anywhere. The ending is left up to your own interpretation on what happens next, but I realise I don't care enough to bother even wondering.

[Hamus]

On 06/01/2023 at 22:58, gone fishin said:

This looks like a cheaper (and worse) version of a Gerard Butler film. 

 

A cheaper.

And worse.

Gerard Butler?

 

Good lord.

[Gambit]

This is like Amazon wanted to make a Stephen King TV show but didn't have the rights to any of his work.

[Laters]

Started off ok...then really went downhill. The cgi at the end

[IR354Lifeqhybot]

Do you have any more in mind that you can't fit the spec on your kind of work but we are keen on taking up our business as well 😉 and we would 😉 the chance of having to pay for the vzzbx

[JohnC]

It's been renewed!

[Vespa Alex]

1 hour ago, JohnC said:

It's been renewed!

I did not see that coming!

I liked the premise at the start, but it definitely failed to deliver. 

[memories]

12 hours ago, JohnC said:

It's been renewed!

😲look forward to more oil rig names like Beatrice, Triton & Nelson.

[schmojo]

This was pretty good TV before any of the things started happening. At which point it somehow became quite boring.

[sofasurfer]

I am genuinely surprised it has been renewed. I know they left multiple plot strands hanging, but the whole show was disappointing to put it mildly, and I usually lap up shows like this.

[Mikes]

Three eps in. First ep was really good and promising, but by ep 3 it's gone all Dr Who. Still, i shall persevere and convince myself I liked it to justify the time spent.

[Vespa Alex]

24 minutes ago, Mikes said:

Three eps in. First ep was really good and promising, but by ep 3 it's gone all Dr Who. Still, i shall persevere and convince myself I liked it to justify the time spent.

Why not. Most of us did. 

[Mikes]

Meh, it was alright. Similar set up to a lot of cheap 90s horror movies I like, like Deep Rising.