spewing - aka TV review

[RAMd®d]

Finally finished True Detective: Night Country, and was really disappointed.

And I really, really hate Billie Eilish.

So far One and Three are the clear winners.

Whether it be Brit or US TV, there's very often way way too much backstory, I suppose in the name of character development.

It's as though so many writers grew up on Marvel comic books — 'Hey what if we give our heroes tortured souls!'

I just finished Bodies, an ambitious sci-fi one-off series.

The acting was really good, but the plot had a few holes, and that's something I tend to over look if they're not too bad.

[Fritz]

gave up at ep4. Don't hate Billie, but I won't listen to her.
Like listening to paint dry.
There's backstory and there's the ability to say more with less.

[DeusxMac]

RAMd®d wrote:
Finally finished True Detective: Night Country, and was really disappointed.

So far One and Three are the clear winners..

:agree:

RAMd®d wrote: It's as though so many writers grew up on Marvel comic books — 'Hey what if we give our heroes tortured souls!'

In fairness, many of the Brit series have the "tortured souls" undercurrent. Just two examples:

In Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's character has a dying father, can't maintain a relationship, and becomes an alcoholic.

In Happy Valley, Sarah Lancashire's character is divorced with two children (one who commits suicide), and is raising a grandson (from the rape of the daughter who committed suicide.)

[RAMd®d]

In fairness, many of the Brit series have the "tortured souls" undercurrent


Hence my Whether it be Brit or US TV

Let's not forget Cassie Stuart in Unforgotten, though hers is more 'conventional'.

Typically, Brit procedural drama allows me to tolerate a little higher level of 'tortured soulness'.

I was never able to get into Happy Valley.