Post by movieliker on Mar 8, 2022 19:39:50 GMT -8
The acting, dialogue, action, music, and cinematography, were all good. But I personally had complaints.
- Season one started very slowly. When it took off, it was good. But after watching all three seasons, there are periods of annoying slowness.
- It takes entirely too long to capture the serial killer. He was extremely sloppy. In real life, he would have been caught before season one ended. The only reason he wasn't, is because the writers didn't want him to be.
- The police chief is portrayed as a pathetic douchebag who hires detectives to do a job. Then blocks everything they want to do, for no reason ever explained. It's as if the writers said, "We need more conflict and tension. I know, let's make the police chief inexplicably annoying, whiny and difficult. And if anybody asks what his motivation is, we'll just say, "To add more conflict and tension."
- There is no reason a violent psychopath would be left alone with a female detective in an interrogation room without constraints or a guard. And there is no reason the same violent psychopath would be left alone in an office with an eldely psychiatrist without constraints or a guard. (Really? Were we supposed to be surprised when the inevitable occurs?)
- There was a little too much emotional lingering for me. I personally don't care about all the characters' emotional growth and challenges. Normal people can handle things. Everybody isn't an emotionally incapable weenie. Movie and TV show makers constantly feel the need to try to appeal to oversensitive sissies. Leaving people of normal mental health to roll their eyes in aggravation.
I personally was impressed with the acting. Especially Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey) as Paul Spector the serial killer. He was terrific. And Aisling Franciosi as the babysitter. But all the acting was good. Even the supporting characters.
7/10 for me.
Have you seen it? (Amazon Prime)
What do you think?