We Didn’t Love… That It Felt Too Short
That also plays into another sticking point. On the one hand, Absolution is much like the end goal of its ragtag hero group (even if they kind of mostly fail at it): get in, get out, and don’t overstay the welcome—and it largely does that in a way that few Netflix series do. But on the other, this might be the rare occasion where one of these series needed more than six episodes to really hook people. Absolution is a breezy watch, but some of its beats in the endgame, heavily reliant on you being invested in the connections between the myriad party members and their opponents, would’ve hit much harder if we’d had the chance to spend just a little more time with them. The group comes together and gets over its divisions a little too smoothly, and while their rapport is great, it just would’ve been much more satisfying if we could’ve seen that journey come together over a couple of more episodes, to make Absolution’s knife twists like Hira’s betrayal feel a bit more painful.
