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View All (4) audience reviews steve d Some great ideas, not always well executed thanks to far too much time spent on the show within a show. The cast is great. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I really wanted this show to be amazing. The concept was fantastic. I love Robert Knepper. The idea of secret messages is brilliant, something that has not been done before. This type of following is not that far fetched, maybe not to that extent, but extremists using a show or concept to justify their deeds, seems possible. There were a few issues that I had. I knew that by watching a show, with only one season, there would be at least one reason why. I felt that because there were cleverly 13 episodes, that the show could easily tie up loose ends. I felt, maybe because it was a CW show, it may not have received the marketing. You can't continue the show, if people do not watch. I understood that. The last few episodes were so frustrating. It made everything so confusing. It seemed like a completely different writer took over and never saw the show. The whole show was all about finding Philip's parents? Why couldn't he just ask Nate to help? Skye's dad was behind everything? The "E" stood for what group and what did they want? Meadows mom wanted Roger dead? They just let the creepy guys take Philip? They took Philip because he wasn't loyal to the show? None of this makes sense.Another issue is the strange relationship between Jeff and Skye. I understand that his brother is priority. It is just bizarre that he is asked about her and doesn't go into it. When they are made to kiss, he kisses her cheek. When she kisses him, although he is a gentleman and sits her down, he doesn't act interested. When she brings it up, he blames it on the drug. It would seem like he would bring it up if he was interested or at least put her at ease by saying that he liked it or that he only didn't reciprocate because she was on drugs. When his brother is safe at home, he walked through the door. If he was romantically interested, it would make sense that he would call, so she wouldn't worry. And her reaction to him throughout proves that she is in absolute shock that he likes her at the end. Why would they make the relationship platonic until the very end? He kisses her, they sleep together, and all of a sudden they are together. It's just odd. I love Robert Knepper. He did an amazing job. I wish that he would find a new show with better writers. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member In the age of streaming, DVRs, and On Demand, networks still aren't getting it! Even the best and most innovative TV show to come along in years isn't going to survive, if you debut it with minimal advertising in the middle of the summer! This is the reason why Cult didn't last and why it isn't currently the top rated show on the CW network. The wildly creative idea was the brainchild of Farscape's Rockne S. O'Bannon and took nearly a decade to come to television. Cult is a TV show within a TV show, that features a cult, within a cult, I will attempt to explain. The show Cult is centered around a fictitious show called Cult. That fictitious show is centered around an FBI agent (Alona Tal) who lived her whole life in a cult, only to escape and join the FBI, with the hopes of locking up her old family for the abuses she endured. In retaliation, the cult has abducted her sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, who she is attempted to rescue. Back to the "real" Cult, the fans of this fictitious show, claim to see hidden messages in the show, that lead them to commit crimes on behalf of the shows mysterious creator, a man no one has ever met. One such crime is to kidnap Nate Sefton (James Pizzinato), the younger brother of a reporter, Jeff (Matthew Davis). Jeff makes it his mission to investigate these followers of cult, to find his brother, and to figure out what their up to, but he needs help. Jeff recruits Skye Yarrow (Jessica Lucas), a researcher on the show, whose father, was also a reporter, who disappeared fifteen years ago, while attempting to investigate the same man who created this TV show. Every episode is a wild ride into an underworld that has existed for decades, that no one knew anything about, and as always is the case with shows like this, each episode is better than the one before it, as it builds up to an epic conclusion.This is the kind of show that had so many original ideas and so much material it could have gone on for years. Cult would have appealed to main stream audiences across every demographic and (pun intended) would have garnered a huge cult following, if it wasn't for the CW. I remember when this show premiered, the CW literally started to advertise for it a week before it aired, and then rarely after that. Cult was on Tuesday nights in the middle of the summer, when lets face it, most people are out enjoying the nice weather. Since the show had no previous exposure, there was no reason for anyone to watch on demand or even DVR it, so it was cancelled. It just doesn't make sense to me, why even spend the money and make the show if you're not going to give it a real chance? If this show debuted on the fall line-up after Supernatural, the ratings would have been enormous, the show would still be on! You have a terrific young cast playing duel roles, an experienced creator, with a team that's already had success with Seaquest, Farscape, and Alien Nation, there was no reason to bury this show, but a las, Cult met it's fate after just thirteen episodes, which are currently streaming on Netflix. For all my followers who claim they have nothing to watch, here is 13 hours of some of the most imaginative and creative writing you will ever see on TV, add Cult to your queue and start watching tonight!!! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member The first, and unfortunately last, season of the CW's Cult was a smart, tense, suspenseful, and well-written tv show that had a lot of great ideas, executed them well, and could've had more had it kept going. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating
