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Moore has created a Chandlerian shoal of red herrings, drawing viewers into a dark and dense mystery set in the very centre of England

Northampton, the magical potency of fiction, eternalism … Alan Moore, recovering graphic novelist and screenwriter of The Show, gives his longtime preoccupations a vaudevillian twirl in this cinematic outing that – unusually – is not based on one of his comics. He gives himself a twirl too, cameoing in this Northampton noir as a ghastly light-entertainment throwback with hair and beard styled into a crescent moon.

The Souvenir’s Tom Burke plays Fletcher Dennis, a private eye dispatched to the dead centre of middle England by East End hardnut Bleaker (Christopher Fairbank) to locate the lover who fatally battered his daughter and recover a Rosicrucian pendant stolen from her. But digging around Northampton, the detective – via a plummy dame (Siobhan Hewlett) admitted to the hospital on the same night...

Though famously ambivalent about film adaptations of his work — to the degree of never watching some — Alan Moore has written a screen original in “The Show,” perhaps attracted to a more hands-on approach to the medium now that he’s officially retired from comics. This playfully wayward mystery set in his native Northampton turns that burg into a kind of midlands Gotham, where not-quite-superheroic intrigue unfolds as convolutedly as possible. Fun if perhaps a little too tongue-in-cheek for its own good, the results will no doubt appeal most to Moore fans who’ll revel in his Byzantine plotting, noirish tropes and other signature elements. Fathom Events is providing them one-night U.S. theatrical access this Thursday, Aug. 26; release in other formats is as yet unannounced.

“The Show” is directed by Mitch Jenkins, a photographer who’s collaborated with the “Watchmen” scribe for 12 years, including on several shorts that introduced some of its characters and ideas.

You don't know what you have till its gone.

On God Friended Me Season 1 Episode 5, the God account unfriended Miles.

No, it was worse than that. Any trace of the God account completely disappeared. Gone. Poof.

However, neither Miles nor Cara nor Rakesh were able to shake what the account set out to accomplish in the first place, and that was to be a force for good and an avenue through which they could help people.

Even if they could never prove that said account existed, it left a mark on all of them. And even without it, they still wanted to help.

There's no denying it, they were changed. Even Miles who initially saw the deletion of the account as a blessing and a chance to finally get his life back.

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A full 24-hours didn't even pass by before he...

Viewers requested more episodes -- they got a full season order -- but you'd never tell based on God Friended Me Season 1 Episode 4.

While the premise of the series is enticing enough, weaving destiny and religion through every episode, the execution always feels like we're nearing an end rather than a beginning. 

We're only four episodes in, yet we've fallen into a systematic pattern where each chapter plays out almost exactly the same.

Miles gets a suggestion by the God account, he teams up with Cara (and sometimes Rakesh) to track down the suggested person, place or thing, and by the end, they solve the mystery. 

Ta-da!

It's an episodic formula that works on nearly every detective and police procedural. 

Maybe that's a good sign for Miles and company since police procedurals tend to overstay their welcome due to high demand.

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