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The Left-Overs...
Jul. 3rd, 2014 09:36 pmWell, I tried to watch The Left-Overs - and..gave up after 35 minutes. It's boring and difficult to follow. Too many characters, most of them look a like, and they aren't that compelling or interesting. No real standouts. Except maybe the sheriff, but not enough to hold my interest.
And everyone acts like they are either stoned or just wandering about in a sort of depressed haze. Except the Sheriff who is angry, which may explain why he stands out. Makes sense considering they all lost their loved ones, with no explanation, so are deeply depressed. But it's not all that interesting to watch.
Plus we jump around a lot from character to character without dwelling on any of them long enough for me to care. Every ten minutes we jump to a different character. So far the only two stand-outs are the Sheriff and Amy Brennan who plays a cultist. But they aren't compelling enough for me to stick with it.
It's like reading one of those highly literary atmospheric novels...where everyone just sort of wanders through life in a cloud of beautifully written angst. And you think, god life is boring, but hey pretty prose. Except Proust this isn't. (ie. The prose ain't that pretty, and the acting isn't that good.)
The story is simple - 2% of the population randomly and mysteriously disappeared, three years later the survivors in a small American midwestern town are still trying to cope.
I'd have been more interested in seeing how they handled the initial disappearance and put the coping mechanism's in place. The skipping ahead technique doesn't quite work, I think.
It got mixed reviews. Some critics loved it, most were bored by it.
And everyone acts like they are either stoned or just wandering about in a sort of depressed haze. Except the Sheriff who is angry, which may explain why he stands out. Makes sense considering they all lost their loved ones, with no explanation, so are deeply depressed. But it's not all that interesting to watch.
Plus we jump around a lot from character to character without dwelling on any of them long enough for me to care. Every ten minutes we jump to a different character. So far the only two stand-outs are the Sheriff and Amy Brennan who plays a cultist. But they aren't compelling enough for me to stick with it.
It's like reading one of those highly literary atmospheric novels...where everyone just sort of wanders through life in a cloud of beautifully written angst. And you think, god life is boring, but hey pretty prose. Except Proust this isn't. (ie. The prose ain't that pretty, and the acting isn't that good.)
The story is simple - 2% of the population randomly and mysteriously disappeared, three years later the survivors in a small American midwestern town are still trying to cope.
I'd have been more interested in seeing how they handled the initial disappearance and put the coping mechanism's in place. The skipping ahead technique doesn't quite work, I think.
It got mixed reviews. Some critics loved it, most were bored by it.