buddy-spitzer
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I came here for the big mystery and read a few reviews before starting the show, that after season 1 the series would go down the drain, and that everything revolving around season 1 would be solved at the end of that season.
What I couldn't know was, that the mystery part gets blown out of potion. To me it wasn't even clear any longer if what I had seen made sense in the "real world". Granted, a show is there to entertain and does not need to be 100 % on point with logically decisions, but in the end it was a mess. I can't even come up with one example because it's a total mess by now.
I guess it also doesn't help that besides the big mystery parts, love interests seem to take the other 50% of the show, with your occassionally dropped in dramas. I guess the show works best for teenagers, but not for someone who came from shows like Person Of Interest, The Wire, X-Files, Fringe and so on.
Seeing how this show has developed in those first 13 episodes, I have lost complete interest and don't care enough any longer on how this show might turn out.
What I couldn't know was, that the mystery part gets blown out of potion. To me it wasn't even clear any longer if what I had seen made sense in the "real world". Granted, a show is there to entertain and does not need to be 100 % on point with logically decisions, but in the end it was a mess. I can't even come up with one example because it's a total mess by now.
I guess it also doesn't help that besides the big mystery parts, love interests seem to take the other 50% of the show, with your occassionally dropped in dramas. I guess the show works best for teenagers, but not for someone who came from shows like Person Of Interest, The Wire, X-Files, Fringe and so on.
Seeing how this show has developed in those first 13 episodes, I have lost complete interest and don't care enough any longer on how this show might turn out.
This might be my first and last review as I find it hard to express myself in English, but I want to give it a try.
First of all I don't want to spoil anything about this episode and I will only mention briefly some points from the first five seasons. But for a better understanding let me tell you where I come from (and probably most others who watch this series).
I started this series at the beginning of December 2023, so I still have memories about the first five seasons and while especially season 5 was a mixed bag in reviews ranging from a low ranking to superb ranking, I probably was still one of the people who still liked season five as I never ranked an episode below 8 points, up until now.
So it saddens me to do this but with the start of season 6 I have to give the pilot episode six points. Yeah the characters are all still there, there is still a connection to the overall case, but this feels rather lame executed, as they ran out of ideas.
The core structure of this series seems to have changed once again, after Kate Flemming stood above Steve Arnott which already has been a long stretch, as they never really cleared or mentioned it more than a few sentences, so that everybody had to accept this. So the team I have come to accept these past few seasons has once again changed.
Main actors felt like they were used as supporting actors. Actors who were a main part in AC12 season 5 (for example Tatleen Sohota) are nowhere to be seen and no explanation was made why. Sadly it also seems that Steve's accident in season 4 still affects him to this day. Maybe the script was telling him to be lacklustre because of this and because working for AC12 doesn't seem to satisfy him anymore, because this I could accept as an excuse for his monotone acting in here. Even Hastings, who only gets round about what feels like five minutes screen time, felt like hanging in the air not knowing what to do.
There were one or two minor surprises, which I didn't see coming, but they were so small, that I don't think they play a major role in the plot. It also feels to me, that they used "Kelly Macdonald" just for the sake of name dropping a known and probably successful actress, so the show gets the attention it needs after changing the channel, because this episode left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Just to let you know I don't watch many British series, so if the other actors are also big names outside of Line Of Duty I apologise for not recognising them.
Don't get me wrong I don't expect a drama series to 100 % realistic, which also seemed to be one negative point people dropped in season 5, but at least make it interesting. I know this can be done as the writer / director showed us in the first four seasons how to entertain and surprise the viewer. Maybe it was just a slow start as the next episodes seem to have a better rating as the first episode, so I try to believe next episode might grab my attention once again.
Overall I really hope they conclude the ongoing story, which started in season 1 with the caddy and masked underground clans, because if this goes on I am not ready for another season and that is coming from someone who enjoyed the early seasons extraordinary and compared this series to the excellence story telling of The Wire.
First of all I don't want to spoil anything about this episode and I will only mention briefly some points from the first five seasons. But for a better understanding let me tell you where I come from (and probably most others who watch this series).
I started this series at the beginning of December 2023, so I still have memories about the first five seasons and while especially season 5 was a mixed bag in reviews ranging from a low ranking to superb ranking, I probably was still one of the people who still liked season five as I never ranked an episode below 8 points, up until now.
So it saddens me to do this but with the start of season 6 I have to give the pilot episode six points. Yeah the characters are all still there, there is still a connection to the overall case, but this feels rather lame executed, as they ran out of ideas.
The core structure of this series seems to have changed once again, after Kate Flemming stood above Steve Arnott which already has been a long stretch, as they never really cleared or mentioned it more than a few sentences, so that everybody had to accept this. So the team I have come to accept these past few seasons has once again changed.
Main actors felt like they were used as supporting actors. Actors who were a main part in AC12 season 5 (for example Tatleen Sohota) are nowhere to be seen and no explanation was made why. Sadly it also seems that Steve's accident in season 4 still affects him to this day. Maybe the script was telling him to be lacklustre because of this and because working for AC12 doesn't seem to satisfy him anymore, because this I could accept as an excuse for his monotone acting in here. Even Hastings, who only gets round about what feels like five minutes screen time, felt like hanging in the air not knowing what to do.
There were one or two minor surprises, which I didn't see coming, but they were so small, that I don't think they play a major role in the plot. It also feels to me, that they used "Kelly Macdonald" just for the sake of name dropping a known and probably successful actress, so the show gets the attention it needs after changing the channel, because this episode left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Just to let you know I don't watch many British series, so if the other actors are also big names outside of Line Of Duty I apologise for not recognising them.
Don't get me wrong I don't expect a drama series to 100 % realistic, which also seemed to be one negative point people dropped in season 5, but at least make it interesting. I know this can be done as the writer / director showed us in the first four seasons how to entertain and surprise the viewer. Maybe it was just a slow start as the next episodes seem to have a better rating as the first episode, so I try to believe next episode might grab my attention once again.
Overall I really hope they conclude the ongoing story, which started in season 1 with the caddy and masked underground clans, because if this goes on I am not ready for another season and that is coming from someone who enjoyed the early seasons extraordinary and compared this series to the excellence story telling of The Wire.
