IdleRich
IdleRich
Yeah Succession has real drama and I laughed... but it does suffer from the problem that we know that the succesion can't be resolved without it ending and so, nothing ever happens.i tried to watch The Woman in the House Across the Road From the Girl in the Window too and was expecting something funny, but couldnt figure out what it was meant to be. gave up after the first episode. so much mediocre content on netflix. comedy drama is basically just a way to say it has a vaguely jokey tone or humorous feel despite not actually being funny ha-ha. succession also had this, but that at least had genuine meaty drama (and roman often had some great, funny lines).
But yeah, The Wonan etc didn't know what it was. That title implies a childish piss-take with stupid jokes coning thick and fast but it's not that at all.
The ending is so silly though, you couldn't get away with it if this wasn't ostensibly a spoof cos the murderer - who stabbed and chopped up the first woman, pushed a primary school teacher off the lighthouse, slit the throat of the handyman and finally killed the
protagonist's neighbour after admitting to drowning his first wife - turns out to be.... the eight (or whatever) year old girl! Now, over the years watching, or at least seeing, detective programmes and so on, occasionally in one of those disappointing cop-out endings it turns out that a young child was somehow responsible for the death, usually by accident* - the most frustrating result as it means that really there was no murder mystery - just once in a blue moon they deliberately poisoned a wicked old aunt or something. Which I suppose, if handled skilfully could conceivably be plausible. Just about. But to accept this tiny child could have hacked, stabbed and drowned a swathe through about eight adults could only happen in a spoof. And so it almost feels that the whole reason for designating this a spoof was to allow them a stupid/weak ending. [/SPOILER]
protagonist's neighbour after admitting to drowning his first wife - turns out to be.... the eight (or whatever) year old girl! Now, over the years watching, or at least seeing, detective programmes and so on, occasionally in one of those disappointing cop-out endings it turns out that a young child was somehow responsible for the death, usually by accident* - the most frustrating result as it means that really there was no murder mystery - just once in a blue moon they deliberately poisoned a wicked old aunt or something. Which I suppose, if handled skilfully could conceivably be plausible. Just about. But to accept this tiny child could have hacked, stabbed and drowned a swathe through about eight adults could only happen in a spoof. And so it almost feels that the whole reason for designating this a spoof was to allow them a stupid/weak ending. [/SPOILER]