amazing miniseries, probably wont get much attention cuz it looks like just another brit show from the trailer but all 4 episodes are one continuous take, couldnt stop watching until the end, just amazing performances. same director from boiling point
Saw this last week, very impressive, both the acting (especially the kid) and on a technical level.
Very confrontational, it still lingers in my mind.
I didn't realize immediately that we, the viewers, are essentially the father. Even though the facts are shown very clearly by the end of episode 1, we still try to find excuses and others to suspect (like the friend) because it's hard to imagine a 13 year old would do something like that.
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
On a technical level the show was very impressive. I'm a sucker for continuous takes, one of the main reason I watched it. On a narrative level, I only really liked the first episode. The second one was technically the most impressive. The third one with the psychologist is overrated imo. The fourth episode it just fizzles out.
I think this show mostly resonates with people who are still surprised by this and boomers who don't understand what is going on in kids heads nowadays. Who only get their news from BBC and The Guardian. Also doesn't help that it's kicking off yet another witch hunt against young boys from the looks of it.
First 3 episodes were great, especially the 3rd one, when we finally had some insight into young boy mind (the "do you know what death means?" question, him trying to be "in control", great acting by both actors).
It is rather short, so it is worth watching even if someone is not into this kind of stories.
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Up until second part of ep 3 I was still thinking "maybe it really is someone else that did it?". The recording quality wasn't that great.
But 4th episode didn't do almost anything for me and I've almost dropped it. I'm glad I didn't as the ending when the daughter said that they shouldn't move and that Jamie is theirs, that hit me. I'm not sure I would be able to behave like that if I was in her place. I would probably want to move as far away and forget about all this shit.
Impressive how they made it, but this was just unbearably slow, and not very compelling as a story imo. I didn't think the camera work (which looks like a tremendous effort on all parts) contributed to anything but making it really slow + making you think "cool, i wonder how they did that.." which i guess can be good if you have not much else going on for it + it'll secure those awards...
Since it's not based of a real event it could've been a bit less generic and more compelling, Maybe following a kid that we had any kind of.. feelings for? He's just some twat, we have no real reason to care for him or be interested in what's gonna happen to him. At least i never did. There's been quite a few of these series on Netflix, murderers that we get to follow, unsympathetic low lives that we for some reason are supposed to invest in for a whole series.
I watch so much crime stuff on youtube of real events that are just far more involving, but i don't need to "invest" in them for x episodes, it's over in 40 mins and i get a small insight into who the person was, reasoning etc + it was all real.
Great actors, cool camera work, that's it. Typical "made for awards" series, so the typical Stephen Graham role we've come to expect.
Loved this. Yes, it is kinda slow, but if you see it more as a "slice of life" series around a very tragic event, it is much more enjoyable than when you expect a "detective story".
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus
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