Theo Pearce

I saw alfonso on a chat show and he made some good points about society being obsessed with their own narratives. Off the back of this I watched the show (5 episodes so far)... and I'm struggling to see anything that he spoke of. There are a lot of incomprehensible characters, behaving in barely comprehensible ways, and everyone is massively overreacting. I won't slag off the acting because with this storyline and direction, I don't see how anyone could connect with the character they are playing (although props to the cat, which is impeccable). The sex scenes are somehow cringey and dull at the same time, made extra terrible by the knowledge that Alf presumably thinks he was presenting some sort of wet dream to all of us (He references Pedro Almodovar at some point, ironically a director who can deliver more illicit thrills and genuine passion with a glance than this show can muster in hours of voice over-laden smut. I may be exaggerating but it felt like hours). I haven't read the book but I can't believe it is as bad as this adaptation. Maybe it's a clever marketing campaign for the original as I'm certainly tempted to buy it just for comparison. Feels like living inside the chip on a spoilt child's shoulder. *update* Watched the finale. All I can add is that this feels like a (very) short story, drawn out interminably. Every character is vacuous and incapable of eliciting audience sympathy even *spolier* if they've been abused. It's hard not to feel that they all deserve each other. The plot is laughably bad. The points it is so keen to make are pompous and clumsily delivered... The lighting is good though. 0.3 stars