Because living east London and walking to South Kensington is realistic
was going to take place in London – despite having been deceptively lead to believe it would be set in Paris at the end of series three – I was excited. I was excited for the continuation of the series anyway, it being one of my favourite of Netflix’s ongoing offerings, but I’d so enjoyed how both New York and Los Angeles had been almost characters themselves in series one and two that I was looking forward to seeing what producers did with London.
A big part of protagonist Joe Goldberg’s narrative is that he is an Anonymous Loner in a big city which it’s certainly possible to be here in London. And while I’ve by no means hated what they’ve done with the place, as always, there are a LOAD of things they’ve got so wrong about London, which make it just that little bit grating to watch. If you’re as much of a geographical nit-picker as I am, you’ll need to brace yourself for this.
Now that we know Joe’s uni is actually in an entirely different county, it’s obviously preposterous that he should be walking home from work. But let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment. It seems producers intended for the fictional university to be set somewhere in East London because, when Joe sets off on his walk home, his journey begins in Spitalfields Market, close to Liverpool Street station.
As Time Out London point out, given that his uni is actually in Surrey, the journey home via Spitalfields and the West End would be around 30 miles and would take around 15 hours.We’ve seen it done many times before, haven’t we? American filmmakers are obsessed with the picturesque London mews, originally built at the back of large homes in affluent areas of London as servants’ quarters. So charming! So quaint! So… London.
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