Does Into the Badlands fit on AMC?
Here’s our review…
Is AMC the right internet forInto the Badlandsto air on?
Thats what I was pondering while watching Two Tigers Subdue Dragons.
I think the answer is yes and no.
No, because everything else about the show seems like something youd find on The CW.
(Dont ask me how I know that, like.)
Heres an example of what Im talking about.
Smells like a further symptom of odd pacing to me.
But what do I know?
Ive never produced a genre-bending sword-fu nighttime soap opera before.
He is the special chosen boy with weird mutant abilities and Dark Willow eyes, after all.
By the end of this episode, we find out that two people are scheming to get him.
They both capture Ryder and enlist him to kidnap M.K.
Stick that in your corn pipe and smoke it, daddy Quinn.
Meanwhile, Sunny also meets someone named the River King who wants a little bit of M.K.
on the side his head, in fact.
Severed and on a platter.
Hes been trying to find him ever since.
Whats a Sunny to do?
For starters, it would be helpful if he grew an honest-to-god personality.
Now that hes forced into this moral dilemma (turn in M.K.
Hes not a steadfast action hero just yet hes just the brochure for one.
Guess who else wants in on some of that M.K.
Our lady of eyebrows herself, Tilda.
She has another epic run-in with the boy and accidentally grazes him with one of her shurikens.
(Couldnt she have just sent a kiss emoji?)
The spectacular graveyard showdown near the end was the most memorable part of the episode, visually speaking.
I just wish they had spent a couple weeks with an acting coach too.
Rating:
4 out of 5
