This review contains spoilers

Episode by episode:

1. Cute, but really doesn't sell itself as an effective Twilight Zone pastiche. The humor is pretty on-the-nose but not bad for all that. A totally solid introduction to the conceit of the expansion.

2. A plausible Twilight Zone pastiche, but "Coffee Control" is fairly dull as a concept and the execution had way too much running around guessing what to do next even with alien guidance. The only saving grace is the return of Courtney Hope's extremely hot voice and the implication that Alan may have inadvertently caused the events of Control itself.

3. Now we're cooking with gasoline. This is the wild experimentalist Remedy whose constant shit-eating grin I want to see more of. Let's fucking go.

All of them, of course, suffered from the Remedy curse of feeling obligated to let "game mechanics" get in the way of a perfectly good video game, but at this point that practically goes without saying.

Reviewed on Jun 18, 2024


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