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What are the writers thinking?

posted 8 years ago by stephanieericsson
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I was excited about this series because the concept was fascinating. But two episodes in, I'm tired.

I understand that the series is based on books, and that it hasn't followed them very closely, but I'm not talking about the plot. Or the acting, which is well done.

What simply does not work is to have a main character like Merrily who seems to have no redeeming characteristics. I have no empathy for her. She's the cliché victim women are expected to be: not taking care of the wound on her hand, not entrusting critical information to her colleagues for fear of how she'll look, escaping into booze, cigarettes and pills while her daughter is off seeking answers that she won't give her about her father...

I'm not saying the main character has to be a pillar, but there has to be something that we, the audience, can sympathize with. And all I want to do with Merrily is kick her in the ass.

I'll give it one more episode, but, I doubt I will go for more. Too bad. It was a great concept and great cast.

God made man because he loves stories. —Rabbi Nachman

[–] urbanangel-24653 8 years ago

Amen .

[–] inertiia 8 years ago

SPOILER WITHIN!

There are only three episodes. That aside yeah, she kinda pissed me off but at the end of three you find out she was chosen for that post on purpose, for that (among other) reasons. I didn't find her as annoying as you did, what i found annoying was the anticlimax of it all, you stick with slow moving story and it ends with a conversation, well basically. I'd watch another series if they made one in the hope that mistakes would be learned from but it did not live up to the potential it could have had. The scene right at the start set a good mood but was never revisited, shame.

[–] PaulW-7 8 years ago

As someone who has read all the Merrily Watkins books I have to say that the TV adaptation brutalised her character; in the books she is sensitive and feminine, in the series she is soul-less, pity, I wuld love to have seen further series.

[–] PaulW-7 8 years ago