It is such a predictable choice, to begin a show with the most dramatic moment - a pummel in a restroom like Taish, or a furtive burial in Tabbar, or as in The Whistleblower: Truth Behind The Lies, an alleged suicide - before inviting the viewer into a flashback to explain how the characters got to this dramatic moment. It usually is the sign of under-confident, insecure storytelling; a desperation to capture the audience from the very first frame. Some streaming platforms insist on this insecurity. This desperation can, like Tabbar morph itself into an artful stream of events. But The Whistleblower is just not able to conjure that level of compelling craft. There is a terrible itch to just want the show to get to the point pronto, and once gotten, to resolve it just as quickly.
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