Not that it is a great show, anyway, but the music ruins it down to the bottom. Not only all the MTV-like moments, the roadhouse music,... that disconnects you from the 19th century feeling, but even the most emotional moments, like Lizzy talking to her mother's grave get completely spoiled by the music choice of some TV visionary.....
shareI don't know if the music ruins the show but it is completely distracting. You're right, it not only takes you out of the scene and the moment but also out of the 19th Century.
Also, I understand wanting to mix 20th Century or 21st Century genre with shocking or captivating stories, or with elaborate dress and ambiance from a different century (Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" had a lot of New Romantic & New Wave songs, placed in scenes, which made sense-and the music tremendously added to the movie) but this is simply distracting and completely displaced. Just wrong.
Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!
I totally agree. Not only is it distracting, they even put it over the top of dialogue and scene changing transitions. It's like someone gave the new guy free reign, and he did a horrible job.
shareI thought the music made it BETTER ... IMO.... Clearly the show is 99% fictional and there is ALLOT of satire and dark humor especially with all the people Lizzie "had" to kill I thought the mixture was refreshing. Now if this was a true historical show, not one simply BASED on real life characters, I would agree, however it's no secret it's fictional and marketed to be violent, filled with dark humor, the music was perfectly fitting.
shareI hate it too. I've just watched the first episode and one song mentions a GREYHOUND BUS. WTF?!?!?!?!!? The songs are awful, it ruins the narrative flow. The producers should be ashamed of themselves for this. Oh, I'll watch the thing for a bit, but they really need to get their *beep* together. I think maybe it's cheaper to get the rights to songs by garage bands than it is to have a composer write appropriate thematic accompaniment.
.....it's for ambience. The characters don't hear it...its for the audience. Now if then characters were using computers or something THATS anachronist....not background music.
shareYeah for an uneducated audience that can't relate to history and has to be placated by modern pop music. American society really is turning into the movie "Idiocracy".
shareFinally got around to seeing this show on NetFlix, and I have to agree. The music would be appropriate for Dog The Bounty Hunter, but it sounds ridiculous for historical fiction. I love 'The Chronicles...', but the musical score almost killed a few scenes.
shareIf you watched the 2014 TV movie, they used the same music. It's sort of the point. When we modern day viewers watch something set in the past, it's hard for us to imagine that these people are are behaving the way people still behave today. You think, "Oh, it's the 19th century, when people were so prim & proper." By giving it modern music, you are jolted into the fact that people were just as f'd up back then as they are today.
It's like Romeo & Juliet. When we read lines like, "I bite my thumb at you," and we see people sword fighting, it's difficult for modern readers to understand that it's a REALLY violent play! But when Baz Luhrman gave everybody guns, suddenly people realized, "Oh wow -- this is really violent! The Capulets & Montagues are like rival magia families." Uh, yeah. That's the point.