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Dec. 9th, 2008 04:55 pmJust saw Kenneth Branagh in Wallander, a new detective series from BBC. He's looking really old, although how much of that is because the character's supposed to be washed out and how much is actually him I can't tell.
It was very . . . British. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But it started out very slowly and unlike most American detective shows they didn't go out of their way to show the audience the clues . . . an unusual camera angle might be all the evidence you'd get that something significant was in the shot, and sometimes they never did 'explain' what sent Wallander from one clue to the next. If you didn't notice the same things he did, well then, tough luck.
I kinda liked that part. But I'm not sure American audiences would.
It was very . . . British. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But it started out very slowly and unlike most American detective shows they didn't go out of their way to show the audience the clues . . . an unusual camera angle might be all the evidence you'd get that something significant was in the shot, and sometimes they never did 'explain' what sent Wallander from one clue to the next. If you didn't notice the same things he did, well then, tough luck.
I kinda liked that part. But I'm not sure American audiences would.
