...that this is an overly long and overly indulgent remake of a classic feature length film that did not need to be remade as a series.
I was excited about this when I read about Rachel starring in a remake, and then was immediately apprehensive when I read it was going to be a six episode series. Why? What is there to add? As it turns out, nothing.
I could have gotten all the plot points in the first four episodes in one hour, because there was no need to drag this out other than to showcase all the weirdness that we could easily see and pick up on with a better script in just five minute scenes, if that much. And the script - a mess at best - too much time spent on silly characters and situations we don't need to know about or care about, and too little time spent on the developing relationship of Beverly and Genevieve ( nice homage there ). There is also too much focus on Elliot going crazy for seemingly no reason about Beverly's relationship because there is no exposition prior to that other than that Elliot appears to be a sociopath.
I could pick this series apart all day and I haven't even seen all of it yet: I believe the twins' names were reversed for whatever silly reason; the game the twins play of swapping patients and lovers is brushed aside for no good reason since it was the catalyst for the deepening relationship and subsequent breakup and breakdown of the twins; the red operating gowns were a surreal and visual example of the decline of the twins' mindset, while here they appear with no good excuse to justify their existence other than to signal the start of the new center...
I'm sure I could go on once I have seen the remaining episodes but I have no desire to catch up right now. I would rather see the original film again just to see how a good film is written, and the original was not exactly a masterpiece to begin with, but it got from point a to point b without long, drawn out, self-indulgent, time-wasting scenes and extraneous characters doing weird things just to be weird and taking up time and space needed for the storyline.
I was excited about this when I read about Rachel starring in a remake, and then was immediately apprehensive when I read it was going to be a six episode series. Why? What is there to add? As it turns out, nothing.
I could have gotten all the plot points in the first four episodes in one hour, because there was no need to drag this out other than to showcase all the weirdness that we could easily see and pick up on with a better script in just five minute scenes, if that much. And the script - a mess at best - too much time spent on silly characters and situations we don't need to know about or care about, and too little time spent on the developing relationship of Beverly and Genevieve ( nice homage there ). There is also too much focus on Elliot going crazy for seemingly no reason about Beverly's relationship because there is no exposition prior to that other than that Elliot appears to be a sociopath.
I could pick this series apart all day and I haven't even seen all of it yet: I believe the twins' names were reversed for whatever silly reason; the game the twins play of swapping patients and lovers is brushed aside for no good reason since it was the catalyst for the deepening relationship and subsequent breakup and breakdown of the twins; the red operating gowns were a surreal and visual example of the decline of the twins' mindset, while here they appear with no good excuse to justify their existence other than to signal the start of the new center...
I'm sure I could go on once I have seen the remaining episodes but I have no desire to catch up right now. I would rather see the original film again just to see how a good film is written, and the original was not exactly a masterpiece to begin with, but it got from point a to point b without long, drawn out, self-indulgent, time-wasting scenes and extraneous characters doing weird things just to be weird and taking up time and space needed for the storyline.