His Dark Materials (TV Series) The Abyss (2022) User Reviews

Leaving the Purgatory

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 24 April 2023]

Mrs. Coulter heads to Lord Asriel's facility and she believes Lyra is dead. Out of the blue, Ruta dies since her daemon is sucked into the new formed abyss. Asriel travels to look for Lyra and stumbles upon the angry Iorek Byrnison that tells him that Lyra has survived and the knife is fixed. Meanwhile, in the Purgatory, Lyra convinces the Harpies to help everybody to leave the Purgatory to reach Heaven. In exchange, people will tell their own stories. Will meets his father before leaving the place through the hole he made.

"The Abyss" is another reasonable episode of "His Dark Materials". The dead people now are going to Heaven (or Hell) and Lyra fulfils the first prophecy. Good also to see that there are only two more episodes of this series. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "The Abyss"

Heart tears

[durrydingols · 10/10 · 8 January 2023]

That's my emotional response and connection to the parallel trajectory (going to the hell, the deadlands, to the bottom of despair) of the character Mrs Coulter and her daemon, with Lyra and her daemon. Ruth Wilson is stunning in her performance throughout the series she's my new favourite actress. Not to mention the other cast. And Lewin Lloyd as Roger, welcome back into the fold of the arc of the story because brudda you have a depth to your character expression that made it hard for you not to steal entire scenes and plot sequence being it is so compelling to view your performance. Simone Kirby, thankyou to whoever cast you bc you are brilliant. Everyone else is. Jane Tranter exec prod thank you X LUUUUUVED this episode SOOOO MUCH X.

The Abyss

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 19 February 2023]

The Abyss sheds a light to many of the main characters.

Lord Asriel is cold, distant, aloof and a fanatic in another form. He hardly flinches when he hears about Lyra's possible demise.

He is too busy with his plans to take in the Authority in what might be the final battle.

It is Mrs Coulter who feels Lyra's loss. It is Mrs Coulter who comes across as human. Sometimes complex, deceitful, evil. Yet she is the one who feels the pain of her daughter's death and then the joy when she learns that Lyra could still be living.

In the Land of the Dead. Lyra and Will want to lead the dead out of purgatory. True stories might be the answer, a deal concocted by Lyra with the Harpy.

I wonder if the truth differentiates Lyra with lies and delusions of her parents. It is a fascinating set up as the series heads towards the finishing line.

boring

[carlmov · 3/10 · 15 January 2024]

This season is killing the series. It's becoming boring by the episode. Slow, no real drama, but the highlight is what the queen witch said about Eve/Lyra that she was brave to experience (sin) as per the writers ingenious rhetoric! What do you expect he is an atheist and can say whatever his imagination take him to without any remorse, or feeling the guilt of morality. Well, screenwriter or author, Eve disobeyed God, that's is not courage it is disobedience in every meaning of the word. The message of the author/screenwriter is to beguile the audience with bling bling word like courage but in reality he is digressing from the truth of the matter just like injecting honey in a soup of poison. Truth can never be altered nor will deception sugar coat the wisdom of God. So, to all luciferians out there who are working hard to deceive nations, soon you will eat dust and perish.