Four episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
My main issue with season 1 of Hulu’s cult drama The Path was that for all of its luscious creepiness and compelling performances, the show sometimes lacked enough of a hook to make me truly and deeply care about the dysfunctional family at its center. It had all the adornments needed of every top-tier TV drama in this golden age – solid writing, great direction, and a just-high-concept-enough premise – but it never spurned obsession in me through its first ten hours.
I watched placidly, and enjoyably, but not lovingly. Season 2 of the show doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or the ladder, as it were), so if you’ve seen The Path before, you’ll get more of that in season 2’s thirteen episode stretch. That’s a good thing for the most part – the cast is still at the top of its game, the drama still stirs with intelligence,...
My main issue with season 1 of Hulu’s cult drama The Path was that for all of its luscious creepiness and compelling performances, the show sometimes lacked enough of a hook to make me truly and deeply care about the dysfunctional family at its center. It had all the adornments needed of every top-tier TV drama in this golden age – solid writing, great direction, and a just-high-concept-enough premise – but it never spurned obsession in me through its first ten hours.
I watched placidly, and enjoyably, but not lovingly. Season 2 of the show doesn’t reinvent the wheel (or the ladder, as it were), so if you’ve seen The Path before, you’ll get more of that in season 2’s thirteen episode stretch. That’s a good thing for the most part – the cast is still at the top of its game, the drama still stirs with intelligence,...
- 1/20/2017
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
With TV résumés that include Hannibal, Breaking Bad and True Detective, the three actors who lead Hulu’s The Path — Hugh Dancy, Aaron Paul and Michelle Monaghan — have plenty of experience playing messed-up characters.
And yet, the alter egos they portray on the streaming service’s newest drama might be even more morally ambiguous, emotionally complex and downright tormented than Will Graham, Jesse Pinkman and Maggie Hart. (And that’s really saying something.)
Created by Parenthood‘s Jessica Goldberg, The Path stars the trio as members of the Meyerist Movement, a cult-like organization that, for all intents and purposes, tries to help troubled souls — but,...
And yet, the alter egos they portray on the streaming service’s newest drama might be even more morally ambiguous, emotionally complex and downright tormented than Will Graham, Jesse Pinkman and Maggie Hart. (And that’s really saying something.)
Created by Parenthood‘s Jessica Goldberg, The Path stars the trio as members of the Meyerist Movement, a cult-like organization that, for all intents and purposes, tries to help troubled souls — but,...
- 3/30/2016
- TVLine.com
All episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
Cults were all the rage for a while on TV. Between 2013 and 2014, shows gave viewers drastically different entry points into various “movements,” from the splatterhouse world of The Following to the fourth wall-breaking (and simplistically titled) Cult. It’s likewise hard to forget the chain-smoking villains of The Leftovers‘ first season, the Guilty Remnant, but as that show restructured for season two, even they took a backseat for a large chunk of its sophomore year.
The fascination with religious indoctrination and the psychological ramifications suffered from being part of such a belief – and beginning to question it – is where Hulu’s The Path seethes and flexes its most impressive dramatic muscles. In the process, it makes a damn good case to revisit a somewhat overplayed genre. The Meyerists (the not-a-cult at the center of this cult drama) do not kill people in broad daylight,...
Cults were all the rage for a while on TV. Between 2013 and 2014, shows gave viewers drastically different entry points into various “movements,” from the splatterhouse world of The Following to the fourth wall-breaking (and simplistically titled) Cult. It’s likewise hard to forget the chain-smoking villains of The Leftovers‘ first season, the Guilty Remnant, but as that show restructured for season two, even they took a backseat for a large chunk of its sophomore year.
The fascination with religious indoctrination and the psychological ramifications suffered from being part of such a belief – and beginning to question it – is where Hulu’s The Path seethes and flexes its most impressive dramatic muscles. In the process, it makes a damn good case to revisit a somewhat overplayed genre. The Meyerists (the not-a-cult at the center of this cult drama) do not kill people in broad daylight,...
- 3/25/2016
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
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