Forthcoming Netflix Limited Series #368
From the storytelling genius behind that thing you vaguely remember watching at least a few episodes of a couple of years ago.
Episode 1
Strap in for a setup that while not winning any awards for originality is still quite promising, especially with those two actors you like in the main roles. Oh and thereās a bit of a twist at the end of the episode, just to wrong-foot your expectations, but nothing too extreme. We donāt want you switching off.
Episode 2
Weāve got the pot boiling now, so itās time to relax a bit and make sure you know who everyone is. There are only six characters, but weāre assuming a fluctuating maximum 60-70% audience attention.
Episode 3
A quiet, more contemplative episode. Great opportunity to get your phone out and look up what else the cast has been in.
Episode 4
Starting to feel a bit padded out isnāt it? Like, they could have done this whole story in a 90 minute movie! Should you bother to continue watching? But hang on: at the end of the episode weāre gonna sock you with a twisty cliffhanger that will shake you to your core and have you getting on your socials saying āOMG what did I just watch?ā and other things our market research shows people like you say. Whoās got better things to do with their one wild and precious life now?
Episode 5
Cliffhanger resolved unsatisfactorily and with minimum palpable effect on the plot or characters. Padding resumed.
Episode 6
Weird nothingy episode that for some reason is 20 minutes shorter than the others.
Episode 7
You know how we've been carefully building momentum over the preceding half dozen episodes? Allow us to destroy utterly it with an episode-length flashback that will clumsily fill in the backstory we couldnāt work out how to organically weave into the show. Wanna know why that one character has an enigmatic scar on her jawline or why the bad guy is always eating radishes and crying? You will fucking plotz when you find out.
Episode 8
Ok weāre back in the āpresentā and weāve only got 50 minutes to wrap things up so here is literally everything we could remember we had to tie up thrown in the general direction of your eyeballs. Exciting twists? Not really! In fact, more or less everything you expected to happen does happen. Rather daringly, however, we end the show with a measure of ambiguity, leaving a few minor questions left unanswered. This is because we respect you, the audience of our quality, prestige-adjacent tv show, an audience that doesnāt want to be spoon-fed a happy ending. Also it was easier because we spent too much time figuring out the radishes thing to come up with anything more satisfying.