This series is mediocre!
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Sibyla01 — 9 years ago(December 14, 2016 02:41 PM)
Hey, Le Carre adaptations are usually even slower, but not boring at all! Ones getting to know the characters in depth. But here, sorry - no depth, no psychology, no suspense, just a pretty effeminate boy with a constant "Im a little orphan boy" look, extremely trusting villain and a hysterical anorectic moving in circles around each other.
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big_kmc — 9 years ago(June 18, 2016 01:38 PM)
Something can be slow and hard to follow and not be mediocre but very well made.
I really hate how most tv shows move so fast, they blow their wad in the first two seasons and all that's left is ridiculous or repetitive plot material.
This was only six episodes so it wasn't that slow. There are tons of tv shows that move super quick and only a few shows that go for deeper character and plot development. It's a shame. -
filmklassik — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 06:48 PM)
Nah. Most serialized TV at least "off network" serialized TV is characterized by the slow burn.
Indeed, the slowness is so common now there's even a term for it coined, I think, a couple of years ago: "Slow TV." (I'm not making it up; Google it)
And it drives me crazy. Because even the best examples of the form feel like wonderful 2 1/2 hour movies stretched out to 6 hours (or more!)
And THE NIGHT MANAGER is no exception. It plays like a very good 2 1/2 hour movie with 3 1/2 hours of justly deleted scenes put back in. -
big_kmc — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 12:21 PM)
I dont' know what country you are from but nah, in the US most serialized tv shows blow their wad in the first two seasons and have no place to go but toward ridiculous plot-lines. The only exceptions to this are the shows that come from England and one notable exception from america is Breaking Bad.
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filmklassik — 9 years ago(June 28, 2016 06:23 PM)
I'm from the USA too and I agree, the only serialized show I really dug was BREAKING BAD (which actually got better as it went along; Season 5 is a masterpiece).
I think BB was great for many reasons, one of which is that it was unapologetically PLOT DRIVEN. The story kept taking clever twists and turns, but always logically there weren't a lot of dead spots (the episode "Fly" being one unfortunate exception) and many of the twists were set up several episodes ahead of time.
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rubirub — 9 years ago(January 11, 2017 05:45 AM)
Totally agree. The show moves very fast to make it believable: the shift from night manager to undercover agent, the friendship between Pine and Roper, his son, his mistress
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Ehrgeiz — 9 years ago(January 12, 2017 03:46 PM)
Well, I did not think it was bad. Good quality in actors and cinematography. Have just 2 problems with it:
- minor one: scene set up was bit repetitive; all the long introductory shots of Mallorca villas and beaches and arabic hotels, like it was a long James Bond exposition without the campy action parts later.
- it was pretty straight forward; while in the end I digged that
the good guys just won against all the bad guys without much losses in an old-fashioned way
, you can see all the supposed plot twists coming from miles away.