What is this? Some weird sci-fi thing? It is not advertised as such. Not being sci-fi or intentionally surreal, it just went wrong.
An international co-production gone wrong, right in the first episode! It was so weird, not obviously, but in such a weirdly subtle way, I jumped off this series in episode 1.
I grew up in Europe myself, and know the differences between USA and different countries in Europe, which are also all different from each other.
I like international productions, and am also a total fan of lip-sync, which I grew up with. Many international co-productions are done right and are excellent.
This one is goofy at best!
So an FBI agent comes back home after an extended disappearance, supposedly to somewhere in the USA.
Except the "feel" is all wrong! The family house, the surrounding woods, the streets, the clothes, nothing looks US-American! It is all from some weird imaginary America, but definitely not any place anybody has ever experienced in USA. It is like somebody, who has never been in USA, and has seen only a couple of movies, like maybe "The Godfather", wrote a script and created scenery drawings in that script, being totally clueless.
So it turns out, that this is an Israeli/USA co-production, which may explain the weird perspective, if this was done by an Israeli crew, that never left Israel.
Filming was done in Bulgaria, likely including the family house.
Obviously no attention was paid to any props, furniture, styling, or anything.
The result is something, that looks so wrong and bizarre, it is not a bizarre art-house thing, it is just plain off, which makes it bad.
That, with the slow pace, was just too odd, a turn-off for me.
Somebody else may be able to watch it, but I had to quit at the end of episode 1.
What a waste of studio funds!
An international co-production gone wrong, right in the first episode! It was so weird, not obviously, but in such a weirdly subtle way, I jumped off this series in episode 1.
I grew up in Europe myself, and know the differences between USA and different countries in Europe, which are also all different from each other.
I like international productions, and am also a total fan of lip-sync, which I grew up with. Many international co-productions are done right and are excellent.
This one is goofy at best!
So an FBI agent comes back home after an extended disappearance, supposedly to somewhere in the USA.
Except the "feel" is all wrong! The family house, the surrounding woods, the streets, the clothes, nothing looks US-American! It is all from some weird imaginary America, but definitely not any place anybody has ever experienced in USA. It is like somebody, who has never been in USA, and has seen only a couple of movies, like maybe "The Godfather", wrote a script and created scenery drawings in that script, being totally clueless.
So it turns out, that this is an Israeli/USA co-production, which may explain the weird perspective, if this was done by an Israeli crew, that never left Israel.
Filming was done in Bulgaria, likely including the family house.
Obviously no attention was paid to any props, furniture, styling, or anything.
The result is something, that looks so wrong and bizarre, it is not a bizarre art-house thing, it is just plain off, which makes it bad.
That, with the slow pace, was just too odd, a turn-off for me.
Somebody else may be able to watch it, but I had to quit at the end of episode 1.
What a waste of studio funds!
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