Black Snow

Just started watching this. I’m pretty sure that judging from the first scene with the girl riding a beach cruiser in her nightgown this is going to be stupid and bad. The second scene with our hero begging someone to beat him is ridiculous. Cinematography is poor. The two tracks they’ve played so far have been terrible. Another stupid scene with lady standing in front of corn field with the sound of train going by… then stupid mom daughter prayer scene. Whoever filmed this needs to go back to film school most of the shots are backlit and you can barely see the actors faces. Some of the audio is so bad it seems like it’s dubbed. More cheesy bad (aboriginal?) music. Twenty minutes in and I think I’ll leave it on. I was looking for something to play in the background and this fits the bill. So I finished it. Not a very interesting mystery. It was watchable but if you have better things to do you can easily skip it, I hope this is not the best sample of aboriginal music because it was all really awful.

Travis Fimmel plays the “brilliant but also slightly unhinged” type main character roles very well. This show is no exception. I also love Australian made detective shows. They are very different in style to the American shows. The closest American show I can compare this to is True Detective, IMHO. Event then, there’s no over the top drama here. Just great writing and acting. I just wanted to check out the pilot episode today, just to see if I liked it. Here I am, hours later, almost at the end of a very interesting Season 1. Where did my evening go? 😳 PS: I loved how they tied everything together in Season 1. Such a satisfying ending to the murder mystery.