To Walk the Line or not
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chaniThe Shadow Line isn't perfect but the production is great, the cast fantastic and what an ambitious show! Kuddos to the beeb for taking the risk. It started as a thriller/cop show but turned out to be a study on morality, filled with religious subtext...very mediaeval actually.
The plot is an excuse but also a complex way to put the viewers in Jonah's confused shoes. The first 30 minutes of episode 5 were terrific but I also enjoyed episode 6 very much. The truth is slowly being unveiled, yet we're still quite in the dark. And the episode has a shirtless Chiwetel Ejiofor!
Bach and Counterpoint...but of course!!!
Could Petra and Joseph be both spooks? Bills are coded but so may be sentences after all...
Jonah's comment on the gloves, when facing Gatehouse, reminded me of The Name of The Rose (with Gatehouse playing here the role of the Venerable Jorge...so was the notebook poisoned?), but I suppose it was also a way to foreshadow Petra's kill...as she was wearing gloves too when she she joined Glickman.
The hospital scene was very theatrical but neat, and the way Gatehouse killed Petra on the bed was very snake-like.
Jonah Gabriel (I suppose the police is a whale?), Joseph Bede....all significant names, and so many parallels between the two "families", written in counterpoint.
By the way some historians wonder whether the Venerable Bede was married...
As Jonah's memory is coming back, Joseph's wife is losing hers for good, and in both case there's betrayal, unreliable partners/bosses, betrayal and adultery... and it's paid with blood. Except that the blood on the marital sheet wasn't actually the price that Jonah would pay, and his unborn kid not the child he would eventually lose.
You know, it's only on tv where you find writers having the balls to kill off 3 year-old children (or animals) these days.
I could have done without the speech Jonah's mistress delivered to his wife at the funeral though.
Jonah seemed to cope, but later as he was following the money track, and the guy checking the logs told him "you lost a son", Chiwetel Ejiofor broke my heart with his "Yes I did". What a killer way to deliver that line!
He is just...words fail me.
Addendum: The music theme of the series is haunting me.
The plot is an excuse but also a complex way to put the viewers in Jonah's confused shoes. The first 30 minutes of episode 5 were terrific but I also enjoyed episode 6 very much. The truth is slowly being unveiled, yet we're still quite in the dark. And the episode has a shirtless Chiwetel Ejiofor!
Bach and Counterpoint...but of course!!!
Could Petra and Joseph be both spooks? Bills are coded but so may be sentences after all...
Jonah's comment on the gloves, when facing Gatehouse, reminded me of The Name of The Rose (with Gatehouse playing here the role of the Venerable Jorge...so was the notebook poisoned?), but I suppose it was also a way to foreshadow Petra's kill...as she was wearing gloves too when she she joined Glickman.
The hospital scene was very theatrical but neat, and the way Gatehouse killed Petra on the bed was very snake-like.
Jonah Gabriel (I suppose the police is a whale?), Joseph Bede....all significant names, and so many parallels between the two "families", written in counterpoint.
By the way some historians wonder whether the Venerable Bede was married...
As Jonah's memory is coming back, Joseph's wife is losing hers for good, and in both case there's betrayal, unreliable partners/bosses, betrayal and adultery... and it's paid with blood. Except that the blood on the marital sheet wasn't actually the price that Jonah would pay, and his unborn kid not the child he would eventually lose.
You know, it's only on tv where you find writers having the balls to kill off 3 year-old children (or animals) these days.
I could have done without the speech Jonah's mistress delivered to his wife at the funeral though.
Jonah seemed to cope, but later as he was following the money track, and the guy checking the logs told him "you lost a son", Chiwetel Ejiofor broke my heart with his "Yes I did". What a killer way to deliver that line!
He is just...words fail me.
Addendum: The music theme of the series is haunting me.
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