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Eh si, perchè, nonostante le premesse, tra il dire ed il fare c'è sempre di mezzo quello sconfinato, impetuoso e azzurrissimo mare che quando ci si mette di mezzo è capace di dirottare navi, di ribaltare imbarcazioni o, semplicemente, di rendere il viaggio da una parte all'altra dell'oceano, o della costa, un vero inferno.
Ed è proprio quello che è accaduto con Shining Girls.
Se avete letto le mie first impressions, avrete notato come in quella occasione fossi davvero al settimo cielo.
Avevo trovato una serie atipica, difficile da metabolizzare, con grandi interpreti ed un mistero grosso come una casa.
Pane per i miei denti.
Col passare degli episodi la sensazione, più o meno, è rimasta la stessa.
Kirby (Elisabeth Moss) continuava ad avere queste strane "assenze" e continuava ad essere oggetto (o soggetto?) di sbalzi temporali impredicibili ed inspiegabili e continuava ad essere la vittima povera ed indifesa che, tuttavia, non era creduta o assistita abbastanza.
La tensione drammatica c'era, la protagonista pure, l'arcano fantascientifico era tutto da svelare.
Poi è accaduto quello che ti augureresti non accadesse mai.
La serie ha perso il suo fascino, il mistero intorno a cui tutto ruotava ha iniziato a perdere il suo fascino, la protagonista è finita per sembrare sempre più una donna in balia di eventi che non riusciva a governare e comprendere, e noi con lei.
Kirby continuava a vagare, in cerca di un assassino introvabile. Lo ha individuato ma non abbiamo capito come. La questione si risolve in pochi minuti nell'episodio finale, senza lasciarci nessuna gioia, senza farci sentire coinvolti. Il redde rationem arriva senza che ne stessimo accorgendo e risulta inefficace, lontano anni luce da noi.
Nel frattempo ci chiediamo dove siano le altre vittime, quale fosse il vero legame, cosa permettesse a quell'assassino, a quel crononauta di viaggiare tra le varie epoche e cosa determinasse in lui l'impulso omicida.
Probabile che la serie, in un momento o nell'altro, queste cose le abbia dette, mostrate, accennate.
e.
Sviluppo Personaggi: 6,5
Complessità: 7,5
Originalità: 7
Autorialità: 4,5
Cast: 7+
Intensità: 6,5
Trama: 4
Coerenza: 5
Profondità: 4
Impatto sulla serialità contemporanea: 3
Componente Drama: 7
Componente Comedy: 0
Contenuti Violenti: 4
Contenuti Sessuali: 2
Comparto tecnico: 5,5
Regia: 6
Intrattenimento: 5
Coinvolgimento emotivo: 5
Opening: 6
Soundtrack: 4
Produzione: Apple TV Plus
Anno di uscita: 2022
Stagione di riferimento: 1
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As usual, today I am bringing you in a new Preview of an article that in a few days or weeks you will see In the Mind of a SerialFiller, my blog entirely focused on the world of TV series and of which, for the past few months, I have decided to give you constantly, in advance of what I will publish, most of the posts you will see at www.serialfiller.org.
Is a series meant to be linear?
Can a series lose interest despite an intriguing story?
Is Elisabeth Moss enough to glue you to the TV?
A few months ago I told you about what my first impressions were with respect to Shining Girls, an Apple TV Plus series that began with the best of premises.
Commanding a good cast is the always magnetic Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, The Handmaid's Tale), accompanied by the ei fu Pablo Escobar, Wagner Moura.
Producing the series, in addition to the same move, had been thought of by none other than Leonardo Di Caprio, to which Ms. Apple had responded with a very convincing "yes, let's do it."
Directing most of the episodes was Michelle MacLaren, someone who made her bones directing no less than 11 episodes of Breaking Bad, and then set sail around the theaters and the world of seriality, lending her talents to such series as The Leftovers, The Walking Dead and Westworld.
Add to that, too, that the series was inspired by a fairly successful book and the game was up. Or at least it seemed done.
And yes, because despite the premise, between saying and doing there is always in the middle that boundless, impetuous and azure sea that when it gets in the way is capable of hijacking ships, capsizing vessels or, simply, making the journey from one side of the ocean to the other, or the coast, a real hell.
And that is exactly what happened with Shining Girls.
If you have read my first impressions, you may have noticed how I was really over the moon on that occasion.
I had found an atypical series, difficult to digest, with great performers and a mystery the size of a house.
Bread for my teeth.
As the episodes passed, the feeling, more or less, remained the same.
Kirby (Elisabeth Moss) kept having these strange "absences" and kept being the object (or subject?) of unpredictable and inexplicable time swings and kept being the poor, helpless victim who, nevertheless, was not believed or cared for enough.
The dramatic tension was there, the protagonist as well, the sci-fi arcane was all to be revealed.
Then what you would hope would never happen happened.
The series lost its charm, the mystery around which everything revolved began to lose its appeal, the protagonist ended up looking more and more like a woman at the mercy of events she could not govern and understand, and we with her.
To put it very simply, we no longer understood where we were and why we were still watching a show that was so abstruse and that had resulted in a fairly sharp disconnect between it and the viewer.
Kirby kept wandering around, looking for an untraceable killer. He located him but we did not understand how. The matter is resolved in a few minutes in the final episode, leaving us with no joy, no sense of involvement. The redde rationem comes without our noticing and is ineffective, light years away from us.
In the meantime, we wonder where the other victims are, what the real connection was, what allowed that murderer, that chrononaut to travel between eras, and what determined the murderous impulse in him.
Probable that the series, at one time or another, said these things, showed them, hinted at them.
The fact, however, that an attentive viewer like yours truly did not notice them, or at least perceive them, gives an idea of the smokiness and inconsistency of the narrative in its final part.
We are left with a fist in our hands, more angry than happy, more disappointed than satisfied, aware that we have, perhaps, wasted 6 hours of our time chasing a series that is not there.
Despite the premise.
Character development: 6.5
Complexity: 7.5
Originality: 7
Authorship: 4.5
Cast: 7+
Intensity: 6.5
Plot: 4
Consistency: 5
Depth: 4
Impact on contemporary seriality: 3
Drama component: 7
Comedy Component: 0
Violent Content: 4
Sexual Content: 2
Technical Comparison: 5.5
Direction: 6
Entertainment: 5
Emotional Engagement: 5
Opening: 6
Soundtrack: 4
Production: Apple TV Plus
Year of release: 2022
Reference season: 1
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