In a lake side town in New Zealand a 12 year old girl is discovered to be pregnant and detective played by Elizabeth Moss looks into the case. A bizarre collection of scum of the earth big shot Matt the Scottsman and his kids, a collection of women on a retreat including a strangely unnecessary Holly Hunter, and some other strange folk intertwine as the investigation unfolds.
On the plus side, it's quite a transporting experience, one can get a good sense of the cold sparsely populated area with it's unique and beautiful landscape. Elizabeth Moss acts well with a faint New Zealand accent. Lucky she doesn't exaggerate or it would be hard to take in with the rest of the rather difficult to understand accents. Feel like you need subtitles sometimes.
The series is too self indulgently long. I know they wanted to go into the characters but there isn't a lot of development and they are pretty black and white. The nudity and fornication is kind of gross and doesn't advance the story. Could have been trimmed by at least a quarter in length. Most of the time it feels irritating and frustrating and you wish things would move on. The strange story makes the people seem rather uncivilized except they have cell phones and modern cars.
I give it 4/10 because in the end you do get an answer which is more or less satisfactory and moderately clever it doesn't leave you hanging. There are some unanswered questions like why this and that happened but in the end you don't really care. If it wasn't for Elizabeth Moss it would not have been worth watching.
On the plus side, it's quite a transporting experience, one can get a good sense of the cold sparsely populated area with it's unique and beautiful landscape. Elizabeth Moss acts well with a faint New Zealand accent. Lucky she doesn't exaggerate or it would be hard to take in with the rest of the rather difficult to understand accents. Feel like you need subtitles sometimes.
The series is too self indulgently long. I know they wanted to go into the characters but there isn't a lot of development and they are pretty black and white. The nudity and fornication is kind of gross and doesn't advance the story. Could have been trimmed by at least a quarter in length. Most of the time it feels irritating and frustrating and you wish things would move on. The strange story makes the people seem rather uncivilized except they have cell phones and modern cars.
I give it 4/10 because in the end you do get an answer which is more or less satisfactory and moderately clever it doesn't leave you hanging. There are some unanswered questions like why this and that happened but in the end you don't really care. If it wasn't for Elizabeth Moss it would not have been worth watching.