At the prompting of a friend, who was quite shocked I'd never watched this show, I watched season 1 over the weekend.
Super 8
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Beverly Hills 90210
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Goonies
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ET the Extra-Terrestrial
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Half-Life/Black Mesa Universe with a dash of Umbrella Corporation and X-Files
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A bunch of other repackaged popular concepts
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This mess.
Basically 8 episodes of nothing but people screaming at eachother, and hyperkinetic "A to B" types of dialogue in a town where everyone is always on the verge of complete mental collapse and/or a multi-state shooting spree.
I guess it wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't good. Just seemed like a long-running commercial for things other than itself, and the whole point of each episode was to entice you to watch the next one.