Flickerater
Joined Nov 2012
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Every scene has mood music to help you decide how to feel about it. A somber moment; some family joy; evidence found; case upset; portentous event. It's constant, unavoidable, you can't tune it out or turn it off.
And almost every sequence spends most of its time on faces. Close, then closer, then real close, then right into the hair follicles. Holding every one of those for a few seconds while the actor / actress emotes meaningfully.
That's in case the mood music wasn't enough for you to know what to think.
Beyond that, the plots are banal stuff you've seen so many times before. A key witness must be found! And is found, and though reluctant (always) is convinced to testify for the good guys, and does so despite standard tv courtroom objection / sustained drama, and breaks the case... ALL in about 2 minutes of screen time.
Then there's lots more of the faces reacting, and repeated meaningful looks etc while the music swells and fades so you can be real sure what just happened.
Then it all repeats with a different plot fragment.
I can't see how this undistinguished sludge has an 83 rating here. It should be 63.
And almost every sequence spends most of its time on faces. Close, then closer, then real close, then right into the hair follicles. Holding every one of those for a few seconds while the actor / actress emotes meaningfully.
That's in case the mood music wasn't enough for you to know what to think.
Beyond that, the plots are banal stuff you've seen so many times before. A key witness must be found! And is found, and though reluctant (always) is convinced to testify for the good guys, and does so despite standard tv courtroom objection / sustained drama, and breaks the case... ALL in about 2 minutes of screen time.
Then there's lots more of the faces reacting, and repeated meaningful looks etc while the music swells and fades so you can be real sure what just happened.
Then it all repeats with a different plot fragment.
I can't see how this undistinguished sludge has an 83 rating here. It should be 63.
First, the lead Lyonne is insufferable. She and the writers seem to think that her blowsy off-hand NYC gal shtick relieves the plot of any coherence requirement and her of any acting duties. This gets old *very* fast.
So many tv series have great casting, superb acting, excellent direction, and decent plots. The talent is out there - so why do the producers of this turkey come up with amateurs not only with Lyonne but half the rest of the cast?
The direction was, apparently: "When we stick the camera in your face, make a few faces and say your lines". The only good actors got bit parts too brief to even mention.
The plot is silly and non-credible, and the "action" is even worse - in fact some of the worst I can recall seeing.
Don't be fooled by the high rating - it's from undiscerning nubs who'd applaud Mr. Ed.
So many tv series have great casting, superb acting, excellent direction, and decent plots. The talent is out there - so why do the producers of this turkey come up with amateurs not only with Lyonne but half the rest of the cast?
The direction was, apparently: "When we stick the camera in your face, make a few faces and say your lines". The only good actors got bit parts too brief to even mention.
The plot is silly and non-credible, and the "action" is even worse - in fact some of the worst I can recall seeing.
Don't be fooled by the high rating - it's from undiscerning nubs who'd applaud Mr. Ed.
The acting is very good; the casting generally very good; the direction good; the production good.
The story line is convoluted and somewhat hard to follow. In part that seems to be the idea - that nothing is clear to the protagonist. But it's often artificial as in him just happening to have a total loss of memory. And the idea of a huge conspiracy which he tries to peel back from the inside seems manufactured.
The protagonist is not the only character who seems a little unreal. Others like Joseph Bede are too. Up to his eyebrows in a career of putting massive amounts of heroin on the streets of England but somehow just a decent guy with an ill wife.
Which leads to the melodrama that gets stuck in where couples yell at each other about their feelings; then we move on in the action.
Another gripe is the scene music that tells us how we should feel about everything. This cheapens any series and this is no exception
Even with its drawbacks I enjoyed it; mostly for the acting, direction, and camera work.
The story line is convoluted and somewhat hard to follow. In part that seems to be the idea - that nothing is clear to the protagonist. But it's often artificial as in him just happening to have a total loss of memory. And the idea of a huge conspiracy which he tries to peel back from the inside seems manufactured.
The protagonist is not the only character who seems a little unreal. Others like Joseph Bede are too. Up to his eyebrows in a career of putting massive amounts of heroin on the streets of England but somehow just a decent guy with an ill wife.
Which leads to the melodrama that gets stuck in where couples yell at each other about their feelings; then we move on in the action.
Another gripe is the scene music that tells us how we should feel about everything. This cheapens any series and this is no exception
Even with its drawbacks I enjoyed it; mostly for the acting, direction, and camera work.