Season 1 – Before

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Bruce R The constant visions, voices, and swirling hallucinations made this show overly indulgent and reliant on someone's attempt to be artistically creepy, probably in attempt to be interesting and engaging. In reality, these things were unbelievably annoying by the 3rd episode. Had the show actually just had an interesting plot and great acting, that's all it would've needed. It was too heavy handed at trying to be deliberately psychological and I found myself laboring to get through it, constantly sighing. Of all the shows on AppleTV+, this was by far the worst and was a major misstep by the network. It had no business sharing the same space as the other great shows on the platform. I will be extremely dismayed if this gets a 2nd season. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/09/25 Full Review Sean M. It’s a good watch. It does have some loose ends, however I feel the story is impactful and an interesting twist on what is happening. I don’t feel like you’re wasting time watching it. It’s one of those where it was entertaining enough and suspenseful so it wasn’t without merit. It just didn’t knock it out of the park like other Apple Originals can do. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/05/25 Full Review Tom F A long slog with zero payoff. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/12/25 Full Review Shane E If considering to start the series - don’t Slow and painful Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/22/25 Full Review TI H I wanted so much to enjoy Billy Crystal's paranormal mystery about a psychiatrist who discovers that he and his young patient share a common past. This ten-episode show consists of a lot of filler, numerous spooky images of blood and worms and creepy children and a dead wife. None of it adds to the story or makes much sense after the story is over. I kept fast-forwarding through each episode. Perhaps, had Crystal boiled these five hours down to two, he would have produced a decent horror film, but even that’s not certain. I found the whole story rather confusing. I thought I was watching a monster movie, except the solution to the mystery transformed the narrative into psychobabble. I think Billy Crystal, based on his performance, might succeed if he tries a different horror story, produced by someone else. His BEFORE story, however, does not satisfy. /////////// On a side note, what’s with all the one-word titles we’ve been seeing in cinema? BEFORE. FROM. SMILE. At least “Smile” makes sense. “Before” and “From” make it seem as though Hollywood has finally run out of ideas. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/25 Full Review Devin M I ended up bingeing the whole thing today so there must have been SOMEthing there, but I couldn't get past the notion that this was a largely failed attempt to bring awareness of what some call "The Larger Reality" to our modern western "scientistic" culture which has for far too long busied itself burning witches and books which embrace paranormal topics we do not AND do not want to understand. So it was with this series, which turned out to be IMHO at best a day late and a dollar short, culture bound, feeble attempt by a myopically self-absorbed and incestuously ill-informed Fox Mulder-esque "I Want To Believe!" newbie to escape his fate as a type-cast lifelong comic while simultaneously vying for a viable role as a whistleblower imbued with 20/20 hindsight, feebly attempting to slam on the brakes of this runaway train Zeitgeist of scientism which continues to bully us all into submissive silence. Sadly, he appears to accomplish neither, while his egoic, self-absorbed myopia screams out; attempting to scold us in most every scene. Thanks, but I'll stick with _When Harry Met Sally_. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/10/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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