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I feel like I am the only person in the universe who absolutely loved Cult (but then again I have never rewatched it after its original run so it's possible that it was a mess). I really liked the theme of it.

No sis I'm a Cult truther as well. Binged it so I imagine that had something to do with it but I loved the atmosphere and how they played with paranoia.
 
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I've never revisited Cult, but I'd be open to giving it another try. I didn't find it that riveting as a weekly watch, so it'll maybe be better as a binge.
 
I thought Cult kind of went off the rails by the end (as most of his seasons do), but I actually thought Cult was fairly decent at the time. My biggest issue with it was that it just felt too soon after the election. Like, there wasn't an ounce of fun watching it, I just felt dread and misery - so it was hard to watch weekly, to be honest. Definitely not the worst of the bunch. (Significantly better than Hotel, 1984, NYC, the second half of Double Feature, Delicate, and the absolute travesty that was Apocalypse.)
 
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Cult was decent. It was better than everything that came after.

Well, maybe not NYC cause that kept me intrigued, until we got what we got in the end.
 
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I still haven't watched Delicate and I don't intend to. Everything I saw from it looked fucking awful, including the cast.

It's the only main season I've not seen.

I also stopped Stories early in season 2 I think, as the writing and acting was just abysmal.
 
Cult is where the wheels completely fell off for me. It had some strong performances, a great creepy atmosphere early on, and an interesting setup, but it revealed itself to be ridiculously lazy and without an actual viewpoint. The way it skipped major events (like how the titular cult was actually formed dd) in favor of doing random flashbacks about past cults... it completely crumbled by the midway point. Apocalypse, then, was genuinely embarrassing. It had completely become a parody of itself at that point; too campy, too self-referential, and genuinely lacking anything even resembling a plot. I mean...

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1984 was when I properly checked out, and I haven't completed a season since (though I keep trying!) I enjoyed the first half of Double Feature and I gave both NYC and Delicate a shot, but it just feels like a completely different show now. Which would be fine if the show was good. But it just isn't.

There's talk of Sarah and Evan both returning for the next season, but the problem is out of their hands. Ryan needs to bring a properly great, young, visionary horror writer onboard and let them take the reigns a bit with a fleshed-out storyline. But I don't think that will happen.
 

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