Firstly, the series comprises four episodes. Patience is always required to set the scene and inform the viewer about the characters in order for the denouement to be worthy of itself. The problem is that the first two episodes are too considerably long, slow and dreary. The dialogue is stilted, slow-moving and tedious. There is a crime to be solved by a gay detective who is revisiting the place of his upbringing in a closed and suffocating religious community, which he fled years before in order to find and free himself.
Does he return for absolution? His husband is much more worldly and reconciled to lower expectations when it comes to approval from family and others.
I gave The Long Call a 7/10 because, in contrast to the first two, the last two episodes progress nicely. The citing of the past of the close-knit religious brethen community continues to be revisited, but now in keeping with the tempo of the denouement.
If the first two episodes had been refined to only one, I would have easily given this series an 8/10. Fine acting and a great last two episodes.
Does he return for absolution? His husband is much more worldly and reconciled to lower expectations when it comes to approval from family and others.
I gave The Long Call a 7/10 because, in contrast to the first two, the last two episodes progress nicely. The citing of the past of the close-knit religious brethen community continues to be revisited, but now in keeping with the tempo of the denouement.
If the first two episodes had been refined to only one, I would have easily given this series an 8/10. Fine acting and a great last two episodes.