I was also stranded on 9/11 - in Juneau, Alaska. So no option other than planes for getting back to NYC. (Juneau is only accessible via boat or plane). I wouldn't say it was the worst week of my life, but it wasn't fun. It felt like being on the moon, watching everything and everyone you care about go through something, and you're isolated all by yourself. And watching all the tourists come through on their cruise ships, and watching the people in town only vaguely pay attention to news about NYC and DC - it was pretty surreal.
I HATED Come From Away. It certainly didn't capture what my experience felt like, although then again, there weren't 7000 of us there. But that isn't the biggest reason for why i didn't like the show.
I do agree that it lacked drama - it presented the whole experience as a minor inconvenience, and it isn't like there is any question about whether or not they would get to go home. So the dramatic stakes are pretty low. No tension, etc. There was next to no character development. And lots of other problems. Don't get me started on the racist joke with the "Spanish-speaking" gym teacher.
But the biggest reason I don't like this show is because it's all ersatz sentimentalism. It's easy feeling that claims to "teach" valuable lessons about living with difference or something, when it fact it does nothing of the sort. |
