So maybe THE PATH is a bad tv show?
Hugh Dancy is brilliant, but the material he is given; the show that surrounds him - it’s pretty ordinary. A TV show about religion will always demand I watch the first episode. A cult? Most TV shows about religion are about cults, but irregardless I am there.
This show is about heterosexuality in a way that I am so fucking bored by. Infidelity, kids, teenage boys and their fucking dads, choosing the wrong guy. Plus, the cult stuff is fucking vague and not as stomach turning as the music intrusively insists.
The main dilemma seems to be is this old man really in seclusion finishing the final steps of the path or is he dead. Knowing the atrocities that can flower in a cult, this old man’s mortality seems a particularly uninspired choice as the catalyst for a crisis of conscious. Especially since it’s all wrapped up in a hallucination.
I mean Hugh Dancy is brilliant. His boiling disgust for the world that he calls love. The rage at everyone who isn’t disciplined when that is the only thing he believes matters.
But then there is a sexually abused teenage girl who wants nothing more than to blow him and he lets her after beating up her pimp who is her dad. Like that is disgusting in a way I’ve not seen since TRUE DETECTIVE season 1 showed us that through the sexual horrors visited on the bodies of young girls, two straight men can learn to be better friends. And fuck your whore wife who had the audacity of being a person with feelings. She really screwed up your friendship with your bro there for awhile.
so basically THE PATH is trash? idk