I've just watched this series on the Roku Channel for free. Most of the time, there was barely enough suspense in the crawling story to make me keep watching.
Currently there are 6 episodes available, and no answers at the end, so I feel disappointed wasting so much time on an unfinished story.
I am not going to give anything away by saying the unoriginal story occurs in a post-apocalyptic age, when a "miasma" fog slowly covering the world is not the worst thing killing people: the bad people are.
The series follows several small groups of people whose paths intersect at times. There are only two types of people in this story: the good, and the bad. The good ones are never bad, and vice-versa, which is too simplistic an approach.
The main tribe in this series is a small group of people who made an oath to kill those infected, a pact which gives the series its title. They also are trying learn the cause of "miasma" in order to stop it.
To this end, they travel to a certain station through a territory populated with bad people, raping and killing for fun.
Various mysteries appear along the way, but there is little to no resolution for those, and after 6 episodes, the audience is left hanging. This reminds me of "Lost", a famous series that started out great, with lots of mysteries, but fizzled into a very unsatisfactory ending.
The pace of "The Pact" is overly slow, stretching something that was supposed to be a movie into a series. This is obviously a low budget production, as its every aspect attests.
There are details that are completely dumb, such as the main tribe burying one of their own, lost to "miasma", and then traveling for 2-3 days, at which point a guy following the group picks up a 2nd dead body, takes it back to the tomb of the first guy who died a few days before, and his round-trip takes less than 1 day!
I am not sure what the producers of this series hope will keep the interest of the audience after 6 episodes. Mine definitely petered out.
