Oh, It's a mystery. Apparently.
The Lost Symbol.
Oh, it's a mystery all right!
Dan Brown is a spectacularly popular writer, though Lord knows why, because he is so spectacularly inept a writer at best. Or maybe he is a genius. It's a mystery all right.
His plots are tarted-up conspiracies with a wafer thin veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, in prose best suited to wax crayon. But maybe that's his genius; conspiracies are popular, we all like to think that we are smart despite most of us not being so; and very few of us can write for toffee. So Dan Brown has found an audience. Personally, I feel his prose is like reading a shopping list with many items ineptly described and then repeated ad nauseam.
And so to this latest adaptation of a Dan Brown literary classic, The Lost Symbol. How would one adapt Dan Brown in an appropriately representative way? The answer is to film it in exactly the same way as it was written. Which is to say:
Perfunctory.
This TV show is as Dan Brown novels are; devoid of any artistic creativity or art or originality except at a very superficial level. You simply cannot afford to scratch the surface of any Dan Brown product because what is underneath is deeply unsatisfying and unable to withstand any scrutiny.
The mystery is how a pig's ear can make a silk purse. The simple answer is that it cannot, but then I've also heard said that you cannot educate pork.
All of which is to say that the TV show The Lost Symbol is as good as the Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol. Hurrah! Well done you, people.
But if your taste is for the perfunctory, and in particularly Dan Brown's take on perfunctory, good for you. Enjoy it.
As for my review, I won't waste words unnecessarily, unlike Mr Brown. My review is one simple word and I have used it too many times already; perfunctory.
Oh, it's a mystery all right!
Dan Brown is a spectacularly popular writer, though Lord knows why, because he is so spectacularly inept a writer at best. Or maybe he is a genius. It's a mystery all right.
His plots are tarted-up conspiracies with a wafer thin veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, in prose best suited to wax crayon. But maybe that's his genius; conspiracies are popular, we all like to think that we are smart despite most of us not being so; and very few of us can write for toffee. So Dan Brown has found an audience. Personally, I feel his prose is like reading a shopping list with many items ineptly described and then repeated ad nauseam.
And so to this latest adaptation of a Dan Brown literary classic, The Lost Symbol. How would one adapt Dan Brown in an appropriately representative way? The answer is to film it in exactly the same way as it was written. Which is to say:
Perfunctory.
This TV show is as Dan Brown novels are; devoid of any artistic creativity or art or originality except at a very superficial level. You simply cannot afford to scratch the surface of any Dan Brown product because what is underneath is deeply unsatisfying and unable to withstand any scrutiny.
The mystery is how a pig's ear can make a silk purse. The simple answer is that it cannot, but then I've also heard said that you cannot educate pork.
All of which is to say that the TV show The Lost Symbol is as good as the Dan Brown novel The Lost Symbol. Hurrah! Well done you, people.
But if your taste is for the perfunctory, and in particularly Dan Brown's take on perfunctory, good for you. Enjoy it.
As for my review, I won't waste words unnecessarily, unlike Mr Brown. My review is one simple word and I have used it too many times already; perfunctory.
- TalahaseesLittleBrother
- 22 ago 2025