Imagine that you are sitting on a glacier. Next to you there is a sled being pulled by a thousand snails. On the sled is a 104-year-old man who is mumbling his dying words while you try to listen while you are also listening to insipid music because you are on hold with your phone company. You're also arguing with the plumber who said it would only take him an hour to fix your toilet and it's been four days now and he mostly just eats your food and watches Mexican wrestling while napping on your sofa. I think this is the atmosphere the director was out to create with TOTDY.
They even take too long to show the show's title, throwing out each word individually and very slowly so that by the time they get to the last word, you have forgotten the others. Take this title sequence as a metaphor for the series.
Why does it sound like a 1950s science fiction movie?
Some episodes run 90 minutes. Are you kidding me? If people went to the cinema and paid to see a feature that gave out so little information, they would lynch the director. It's so incredibly long and stupid and says almost nothing, and what very little it does say could have lasted less then ten minutes onscreen.
So, I guess this is the new style in directing, call it "Real Time" because in an opening episode that was an hour and a half long, that exact amount of time passed in the story. Every time a character paused to think, or scratch, or do anything, we had to watch. Excruciating.
"Hold on, let me go get him," someone says to the cop talking on the phone. This is sort of the leitmotif of the show thus far, keeping us waiting. Does the director think this builds suspense? Watching someone waiting for his turn to be called isn't suspense: it's a lack of common sense on the part of the director because he doesn't know that he can simply jump forward without the completely tedious two minutes we sit through until the cop is called. Almost no information is told in these two minutes. The director seems to think that atmosphere and mood are all that are needed to sustain the viewers.
"I have something to tell you." "OK." Waits SIX seconds to tell us.
The director just can't give us an establishing shot. He has to move at a speed that would never possibly break a neck. Absolutely everything is dragged on to ridiculous lengths
Sorry, Hollywood. It doesn't matter how beautiful or tough-acting she may be, a 30 year-old male cop with a girl of 16 isn't crime noir, it's called pedophilia.
They even take too long to show the show's title, throwing out each word individually and very slowly so that by the time they get to the last word, you have forgotten the others. Take this title sequence as a metaphor for the series.
Why does it sound like a 1950s science fiction movie?
Some episodes run 90 minutes. Are you kidding me? If people went to the cinema and paid to see a feature that gave out so little information, they would lynch the director. It's so incredibly long and stupid and says almost nothing, and what very little it does say could have lasted less then ten minutes onscreen.
So, I guess this is the new style in directing, call it "Real Time" because in an opening episode that was an hour and a half long, that exact amount of time passed in the story. Every time a character paused to think, or scratch, or do anything, we had to watch. Excruciating.
"Hold on, let me go get him," someone says to the cop talking on the phone. This is sort of the leitmotif of the show thus far, keeping us waiting. Does the director think this builds suspense? Watching someone waiting for his turn to be called isn't suspense: it's a lack of common sense on the part of the director because he doesn't know that he can simply jump forward without the completely tedious two minutes we sit through until the cop is called. Almost no information is told in these two minutes. The director seems to think that atmosphere and mood are all that are needed to sustain the viewers.
"I have something to tell you." "OK." Waits SIX seconds to tell us.
The director just can't give us an establishing shot. He has to move at a speed that would never possibly break a neck. Absolutely everything is dragged on to ridiculous lengths
Sorry, Hollywood. It doesn't matter how beautiful or tough-acting she may be, a 30 year-old male cop with a girl of 16 isn't crime noir, it's called pedophilia.