I watched the first episode and didn't like it enough to watch any other episodes. The reviews on the season are now so bad that I'll never watch it.
Anyone care to give me a wrap up of what it was about in 100 words or less?
Yes.
The less than 100 words version:
The first seven episodes meant nothing. The eighth episode shivs the first seven episodes - whoever you think did what, they didn't do it. It doesn't even matter.
The 666-word version from Hell:
It opens with Farrell boning McAdams and then trading stories about how f---ed up they are. They are f---ed up. I can tell because they drink scotch straight from the bottle and that is what f---ed up people do. They engage in post-coital police work and peg the whodunnit on a couple of characters who were on screen all of four seconds through the first seven hours of the show. (The first seven episodes all died right then and there, but the show continued.) Then, a bunch of stupid s--- happens, highlighted by a scene in a bus station that should be shown to film students as they're admonished to never, ever do anything like that ever.
Rachel McAdams gets a haircut and then gets on a boat. The boat is 45' long and has no cabins, but it's taking 30 passengers to Venezuela.
Colin Farrell is supposed to get on the boat for more boning, but dies because he drives the same car all the time despite being wanted by legions of people with guns. Those people put a tracker on his car so they could track him...sounds clever, but begs the question why they didn't just wait by his car to whack him. (Answer - because writers love car chases.) During the chase, he records a message on his iPhone to his son in which he confesses that he never read the script and that he's firing his agent. He gets shot 87 times near a tree because someone thought a shot looking up at a tree would be cool. (It wasn't.) As we leave his bullet-ridden corpse, we see that the message was never sent to his son because he was on Sprint. (Ever notice that no bullet-ridden movie bodies are ever shot in the nuts? If you want to be an edgy film-maker, have your protagonist taken out by a hail of bullets to the giblets.)
Vince Vaughn dies after his car is inexplicably surrounded by people with an extrasensory ability to determine his whereabouts. He is brought to the desert because the panoply of contrasting nature scenes in the forest, desert and ocean was supposed to blow our minds. (It didn't.) Vince is then stabbed during a laundry squabble. The stab wound to his side somehow manifests itself as a strange limp even though his legs were left unmolested. (Acting!) He staggers through the blistering heat without thinking to remove his black suit jacket until he comes across the apparition of his wife beckoning him.
He celebrates making it back to her wherein the apparition helpfully and correctly points out that Vince's mortal body has face-planted some yards back and that their tortured dialogue has actually outlived his character. Ghost Vince turns around, sees Baking on the Sand Vince and then Ghost Vince, too, topples into history.
We bounce to Colin's ex-wife's kitchen where she opens a paternity test and sees that Colin did indeed sire the odd-looking redheaded kid. (Casting question...two people with dark brown hair and brown eyes might be challenged to produce that particular kid, no?) Anywho, she fingers a couple of pictures of old-timey Colin from better days and cries so that we know she loved him. (And is willing to overlook the fact that he died in a police shootout and was wanted for any number of murders.)
And then we go to Venezuela where Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn's still-alive wife are holed up in a hotel room living as what I like to believe is a relatively attractive lesbian couple. As we leave them, they're giving the evidence of the myriad of crimes to some reporter. That presumably will clear everyone's name and cause havoc among the surviving criminals, so happy ending there, right? Also, Rachel has a baby which we're lead to believe is Colin's because the baby has brown hair and not something crazy like red hair because two people with brown hair and brown eyes just don't have ginger babies.
