The Passage. Hope it gets new writers if it's renewed.

[Baitball Blogger]

First season may be its last because of the poor character development and the way it used the first season to create a too long transition between the known world and the apocalypse that was obviously the intention all along. They could have edited quite a bit at the beginning so these last two hour season finale didn't seem so rushed.

What a shame.

[Blazesweetie]

1. So Disappointing

I'm guessing from your post that you read the book/books? I was so looking forward to this and really not happy with how it turned out. They changed so much and like you said, stretched it out way more than necessary just to make the Amy/Wolgast part fill the whole first season. I was really surprised that Justin Cronin had an executive producer credit on the series and it makes me wonder how involved he really was with it. It's one of my favorite books and I wish they had just left it alone. It could have been so good if done right.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Did not read the books, but I did see the promise of a good story.

Also, that relationship between Amy and Brad was confusing. One minute Amy was bonding with him, and the next she was rejecting him altogether. Now, I know that she was dealing with some confusing changes of her own and that this back and forth was to be expected, but this could have used some editing in the beginning. Sometimes it seemed like they were repeating the same script.

What they crammed in the "30 days after" that could have been handled better was that speech that Brad gave her about teaching her what he knew so she could better be on her own. That could have happened earlier in those thirty days and it would have been nice to see Amy learn new skills in time to master them before the final split occurred.

They crammed way too much in the last half hour. It took time to figure out that those that died by bites would return as the turned. And that this was the objective. Which is to say, it was the beginning of a new evolution. But to someone who hasn't read the books, it was just exasperating to have to put it together that Amy killed everyone else off in the cabin, presumably because she expected them to evolve...and then walked away. It made you wonder if she turned into something that even Brad would not approve of.