Bad pacing, underdeveloped characters, and lacking in plot.
The initial opening was intriguing, in which two boys find an unusual corpse in the woods. But as for the rest of the first episode, I couldn't tell you what happened in it and I literally just watched it five minutes ago. The problem was: nothing happened. I couldn't even tell you a single character's name. I have no reason or desire to continue watching.
Apparently The Chemistry of Death was a novel first, so something must have gone seriously wrong in translating it to the screen. Television is such a mature medium now that writers, directors and producers should know how to tell a story and keep the viewer engaged.
For something that's meant to be set in a sleepy English village, it certainly didn't feel like it. I'm not sure what was missing, but if it wasn't for the occasional shot of a house in the countryside, I would have thought this was set in London. Perhaps an issue of casting, acting etc. The atmosphere wasn't there, it didn't feel like any of the people actually knew each other or lived in the same place as each other. Fundamentally it didn't convey the feeling of the place or the people it was meant to.
It seems like many shows nowadays are a checklist or painting by numbers, rather than a labour of love in which the creators have a passion to create something wonderful or brilliant because it matters to them.
The initial opening was intriguing, in which two boys find an unusual corpse in the woods. But as for the rest of the first episode, I couldn't tell you what happened in it and I literally just watched it five minutes ago. The problem was: nothing happened. I couldn't even tell you a single character's name. I have no reason or desire to continue watching.
Apparently The Chemistry of Death was a novel first, so something must have gone seriously wrong in translating it to the screen. Television is such a mature medium now that writers, directors and producers should know how to tell a story and keep the viewer engaged.
For something that's meant to be set in a sleepy English village, it certainly didn't feel like it. I'm not sure what was missing, but if it wasn't for the occasional shot of a house in the countryside, I would have thought this was set in London. Perhaps an issue of casting, acting etc. The atmosphere wasn't there, it didn't feel like any of the people actually knew each other or lived in the same place as each other. Fundamentally it didn't convey the feeling of the place or the people it was meant to.
It seems like many shows nowadays are a checklist or painting by numbers, rather than a labour of love in which the creators have a passion to create something wonderful or brilliant because it matters to them.