Disappointed rant
After watching keep sweet and trust me I was primed for a good escape the cult fictional series, I had high expectations with the addition of the outsider romance.
Left super disappointed and I just have to rant. I’m only on episode 2 and I physically can’t watch anymore. Characters move for the plot not for real motivations.
Spoilers** Sam giving grace the corn doll? Why, it would just give him away.
Rosie leaves her bible behind on her secret mission? Why! Just makes me want to stop watching.
Sam just popping up in the getaway car with Rosie after dropping off isaac(how did he get in) tells her to drive, they got a location (why are they here?) then she spends all of one minute trying to convince them to go back ‘for her daughter’ (okay how is she going to make it back in time?) He gives in (didn’t take much convincing) they drive ALL THE WAY BACK then he starts expressing his emotions without being prompted (???) then they spend a few minutes chatting about religion calmly forgetting you’re about to be caught. (Wheres the urgency from before?) Like NONE of this makes any sense. It’s so frustrating to watch.
When Issac got let free, his wife decided to run to Adam (the man who got her husband publicly humiliated and tortured) instead of going to the leader mr Phillip, and using that against Adam to get him demoted. Makes no sense
The main girls husband feels flat and stereotypical villain, she’s in a cult for god sakes! The whole thing about a cult is it lulls you into a false sense of security and community. There’s no push and pull here, it’s all bad, yet the protagonist doesn’t seem to make any kind of character development to deconstruct her religion.
I wish there was more to show how a cult lures you into happiness, I wish Sam wasn’t some ‘bad guy but not actually bad just misunderstood’. It’s just a wishy washy plot and character motivations are all over the place. Overall narrative falls flat for what I expected considering all the real accounts we have of deconstructing religion and escaping a cult.