And how it’s set a new benchmark for Prestige TV.
I’m finding that writing about Big Little Lies is extraordinarily difficult, because an itemization of its merits as a piece of craft are inevitably going to sound like backhanded compliments, and I would want all of those merits to be taken very seriously. This itemization would also involve several uses of negatives as qualifiers, and that sets the wrong tone; if something “isn’t [conditionally positive quality],” isn’t that bad? Then there’s the “is it a movie or is it a TV show?” thing, which is becoming more of a thing, and proportionally pissing me off ever more with each recurrence, because (he said, betraying the hippie-dippiness of his arts and critical philosophy education) it’s all cinema, man. In the absence of any other opening gambit, let’s err on the side of being reductive: it’s good. It...
I’m finding that writing about Big Little Lies is extraordinarily difficult, because an itemization of its merits as a piece of craft are inevitably going to sound like backhanded compliments, and I would want all of those merits to be taken very seriously. This itemization would also involve several uses of negatives as qualifiers, and that sets the wrong tone; if something “isn’t [conditionally positive quality],” isn’t that bad? Then there’s the “is it a movie or is it a TV show?” thing, which is becoming more of a thing, and proportionally pissing me off ever more with each recurrence, because (he said, betraying the hippie-dippiness of his arts and critical philosophy education) it’s all cinema, man. In the absence of any other opening gambit, let’s err on the side of being reductive: it’s good. It...
- 4/6/2017
- by Danny Bowes
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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