It’s like watching those old Republic serials that start out with something like 12 men in a boardroom or on an expedition and over the course of 12 episodes they get knocked off one by one by a mysterious villain in a skull mask or black hood or something, operating out of a secret cave with a lot of flashing lights and Jacob’s Ladders, and he has two henchmen that wear dark suits and fedora hats, and then you get to the final episode and you find out which one of the 12 was under the mask all that time because the others are all dead by then.

This timeline would be a lot more fun if it was a Republic Serial.