Submitted by bathorthegenius t3_z1gxg7 in television
Which is the most ambiguous and confusing out of the following shows? hardest to understand
dark
1899
lost
the prisoner
twin peaks (all 3 seasons)
westworld
game of thrones
mindhunter
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python isn't confusing at all. I was in my teens when I first heard them. Bought their vinyl records and spent hours with my mates, pissing ourselves laughing. On the other hand, I didn't 'get' Twin Peaks or Lost. Dark just kept going and I just got bored. Never saw GoT because it was on Fox.
i dont think anything can beat dark here, westworld is the only one that comes close
any tv shows that are more ambiguous in your opinion?
Neither Dark or Westworld are very ambiguous, as there's lots of explaining. You do almost need a flowchart or visual aid to get it all, but there's not much left open to interpretation.
Twin Peaks I'd say is the one where things happen and you kinda get some reasons, but part of the vibe of the show is that there's mysterious shit in the universe none of us can ever really understand. As far as literal ambiguity goes, it wins.
Netflix has an excellent guide up for Dark.
You can select your last seen episode and it updates with all relevant information
nothing that ive seen beats dark in terms of ambiguous and confusing, and westworld is probably number 2
GOT only got confusing because the showrunners ran out of source material and started to screw up the carefully crafted plots the original creator (GRRM) had set in place.
You need Legion and Mr Robot in your list
The Prisoner ends up being more confusing than ever especially since they don't explain a thing, so probably that
Westworld by a lot imo
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i'd say DARK is the most confusing show i've seen in a while. i just finished up 1899 and while it had some strange/confusing moments, overall the show was relatively easy to follow.
Which version of The Prisoner are we talking about here, 1967 or the 2009 remake? The remake was confusing because it was crap.
tinoynk t1_ixb2bcp wrote
Westworld is the most confusing in a bad way.
Dark is the most confusing in a good way.
Twin Peaks original run is weird but not really that confusing, season 3 is definitely more abstract, but it also doesn't really try to explain a lot of things, so it might fall more into the ambiguous/open to interpretation category.
1899 isn't confusing partially because they don't reveal the twist but tease things for the entire season, and I don't think the reveal is interesting enough to take a whole season to set up, though with the way it ends I could see a season 2 being a lot more interesting depending the direction it goes.
Game of Thrones isn't confusing or ambiguous at all, but you do have to keep track of a decent number of characters. The Wire would be even another level in terms of the pure number of characters and storylines you need to keep track of.
I only saw a few episodes of Lost and The Prisoner, I remember enjoying Lost and thought The Prison was boring as shit, partially because I had no idea what was going on.
I only saw an episode of Mindhunter but it seems pretty straightfoward.
Monty Python is probably confusing because its an absurdist comedy, but it's supposed to be funny so it is what it is.