What looks like prestige TV, sounds like prestige TV, and acts like prestige TV, but is in fact just a melodramatic copycat pretending to have serious thoughts in its head? That would be Apple TV+’s new series 'Suspicion,' nschager writes.
What looks like prestige TV, sounds like prestige TV, and acts like prestige TV, but is in fact just a melodramatic copycat pretending to have serious thoughts in its head? That would beseries, which alternates between being wholly preposterous and egregiously preachy. Were that not enough, though, this U.K. production headlined by
and Noah Emmerich is also interminably dull, dispensing red-herring clues regarding its central mystery with all the grace of a jackhammer and the intrigue of a TED Talk. concerns the abduction of Leo Newman , heir to the throne of his mom Katherine’s Cooper Union PR firm. This kidnapping takes place in Manhattan’s Park Madison Hotel by a group of criminals who wear British royal family masks and stuff poor Leo into a suitcase to spirit him past security.
All four of these British strangers were at the Park Madison Hotel on the day that Leo was snatched.
To maintain guessing-game suspense, Williams keeps crucial details about Aadesh, Tara, Natalie and Sean hidden from view, and the effect of that strategy is to render them two-dimensional ciphers who’ve been designed solely as narrative devices.endlessly flip-flops between presenting its characters as innocent and tormented common folk, and covert conspiratorial villains. Yet either way, they don’t for a second come across as authentic people.
Were it capable of generating a modicum of breakneck menace, or a sense of momentous stakes, such sluggish whodunit plotting might have been more tolerable. Unfortunately, despite a raft of shootouts, chases, disguises and sting operations—much of them filtered through CCTV surveillance footage used by law enforcement to track their prey—plods along with a dearth of urgency. Worse, its eventual revelations are of a sermonizing variety having to do with random hot-button topics.
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