First season is amazing. It's dark, it's scary, gripping - edge of your seat television. Well acted, well cast and a great story line.
I got the impression that halfway through season 2 there was a change in course. I don't know if there where changes behind the scenes, they suddenly got approval for a third season or just how it was edited. But this show that has so effectively built story lines methodically....perfecting the art of suspense....spends 3 episodes of the police identifying Spector, tracking him down, building towards capturing him, slowly, slowly, build, build - and then all of a sudden he's in custody in the most anti-climatic chase scene ever.
And then halfway through the second season these really apparent plot issues start appearing. The whole facade around hinting to the press that the Jane Doe suicide victim they'd found was Rose Stag in order to 'draw the killer out' but then never even showing the viewer Spector hearing that information, let alone doing anything with that - the pointless lesbian kiss that felt like it was just put in there for the magazine pictures - and the just every aspect of the final episode, where in my opinion the show just got so unbelievably unrealistic and far-fetched it starts to affect your enjoyment. We all know that how it plays out on TV isn't the same as real life - but you can take the fantasy too far - and things like the police helicopter picking up on the photographer in the woods - but doesn't detect the car he got out of, or the man who was driving said car then get out and walk towards the scene, gun in hand....it's too much (and that's before we move on to Stella Gibson's miraculous healing powers reducing the effects of an assault where she suffered facial fractures to just a scratch in 48 hours).
The third season was then too slow - you lose interest. There's not a mystery to solve or a killer to catch anymore and I don't think they did a good enough job of replacing that. Saying that the final episode, whilst equally gripping, was very exciting and entertaining and whilst it wasn't an ending I wanted, it did at least give the storyline closure.
I also found something about Gillian Anderson's character a bit cold and difficult to warm too. Jamie Doran on the other hand is a fine actor.
There are murmurs of it being brought back with a different story line and I'd be hugely interested in watching that and seeing how they would take the show forward on a different case.
First season is a cracking watch - later episodes aren't bad....just doesn't live up to cracking expectations we had.
I got the impression that halfway through season 2 there was a change in course. I don't know if there where changes behind the scenes, they suddenly got approval for a third season or just how it was edited. But this show that has so effectively built story lines methodically....perfecting the art of suspense....spends 3 episodes of the police identifying Spector, tracking him down, building towards capturing him, slowly, slowly, build, build - and then all of a sudden he's in custody in the most anti-climatic chase scene ever.
And then halfway through the second season these really apparent plot issues start appearing. The whole facade around hinting to the press that the Jane Doe suicide victim they'd found was Rose Stag in order to 'draw the killer out' but then never even showing the viewer Spector hearing that information, let alone doing anything with that - the pointless lesbian kiss that felt like it was just put in there for the magazine pictures - and the just every aspect of the final episode, where in my opinion the show just got so unbelievably unrealistic and far-fetched it starts to affect your enjoyment. We all know that how it plays out on TV isn't the same as real life - but you can take the fantasy too far - and things like the police helicopter picking up on the photographer in the woods - but doesn't detect the car he got out of, or the man who was driving said car then get out and walk towards the scene, gun in hand....it's too much (and that's before we move on to Stella Gibson's miraculous healing powers reducing the effects of an assault where she suffered facial fractures to just a scratch in 48 hours).
The third season was then too slow - you lose interest. There's not a mystery to solve or a killer to catch anymore and I don't think they did a good enough job of replacing that. Saying that the final episode, whilst equally gripping, was very exciting and entertaining and whilst it wasn't an ending I wanted, it did at least give the storyline closure.
I also found something about Gillian Anderson's character a bit cold and difficult to warm too. Jamie Doran on the other hand is a fine actor.
There are murmurs of it being brought back with a different story line and I'd be hugely interested in watching that and seeing how they would take the show forward on a different case.
First season is a cracking watch - later episodes aren't bad....just doesn't live up to cracking expectations we had.
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