Halloween falls on Saturday this year, which is traditionally the least popular for television. Perhaps this is appropriate. In 2015, television can be many things that are suitable for the holiday: shocking, terrifying, sticky sweet, excessively medical and deep, rude. But one thing with which he is still fighting is fear. Don't believe me? Find a moment to consider: what is the last ordinary television show, which was actually complete terrible? I do not mean scary in pieces, like one of the victims of the skin. I mean the show, which is terrible from top to bottom, from beginning to end. And I mean the show, except, say, DadField
This is not such a critic as a fact of life. Films, with their running time, are especially good in maintaining mood. When you sit in your place for a horror movie, you, in fact, agree to be on the edge of it for 90-120 minutes. TV, by nature, requires a variety of tones and heights. Spectators simply cannot be asked to hold their breath for eight, 10 or even 22 hours a season. Try it, and they will be dead even before your show. Instead, television traditionally had to play on horror sidelines, creating a whole series of ceilings and waste, usually underestimated Fag Crowd: slow, painful building; Capital, Joman's investigation; Long, sad denouement. (Or, as in the case of Fox is smart Shout the queenThe idea that a mockery can hurt more than a knife.) A terrible film is a turn of ghosts. A terrible television show is more a ghost of time. There must be at least random hallways to such amenities as consolation and humor, because, frankly, you will be there for some time.
If someone was going to hack horror code on TV, I would expect that it would be a paid service, such as HBO or Netflix, with their unlimited makeup budget and freedom for the micro-sensor with the accuracy of the serial killer. But the two most successful series to challenge the championship of terrible cinematic cinema, both come from the devilish clamps in the basic cable. FX American horror storystill Kill the ratings In its fifth iteration, probably the closest TV when the liba came to the specificity and sustainable craziness of the film. This is partly due to the creative casting of the show and an insatiable thirst for the limbs. But let's be honest: the most remarkable aspect Ahs Is a bearded lady, this is the duration of each season. Limiting each cycle up to 13 hours and the only story, an exhibition, a dissonant note can sound like a symphony. Doesn't look Ahs So much Committs To this.
AMC Walking dead Even more remarkable. Not only is it far and far from television The most popular show Among the very desired demographic affairs from 18 to 34 years, she almost alone denied each of the ideas set forth in my first paragraph. Where most serialized dramas create the world and over time spread to it, adding characters, nuances and layers, Walking dead It has a guillotine where there should be the history of history. He is not interested in saving the world or curing an outbreak of zombies. Instead, he sets the base camp at a crushing moment when most dystopic films end, plunging into a broken heart, violence and loss. “Everything fucks” is not a traditional starting point of television, but, again, Walking dead Not a traditional series. His remarkable skill in areas, often considered auxiliary – sound design, visual effects, editing and casting – helped to support it, even when the plot decisively turns into a kind of sadistic nihilism. And, perverted, gloomy consistency Walking dead – No matter what is happening, someone will bite every week – exactly what saves him as a television show. At the moment, constant, terrible suffering has become as reliable as the laughter highway.
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This is Sunday Spectacular episode In fact, further cementing Walking deadConnection to the rest of the television. IN John Snow Era, the favorite show far exceeded the boundaries of their temporary slots. Fandom is a sport with full contact, which passes by the clock, the seasons will be damned. This show -anner Scott M. Gimpl I had to qualify A great death – and, thus, stepped on his own dramatic narrative just a few minutes after he put him in motion – was another evidence that the peace of games no longer works in the world where everyone plays at such a high level. On Walking deadIN People can simply be oversized for the masses of zombies. But in fact, these characters are close, welcome in our homes every week. A modern show -wrapping show can and should, rude them. But he needs to remember to respect them.
Despite this mistake, my main conclusion from “thank you” was admiration. Although There is a lot of nit to choose Walking deadI am very impressed by the ability of the show to use complex, quickly burning emotions, such as suffering, stress and despair, and drive them within the weekly series. In a panic, almost a drug, they argue that Nicholas got into the impossible horde of zombies surrounded him, was contagious. I am not saying that I can relate to the choice that he made at that moment – but, God, who can blame him? Again and again I find the huge scale of this season Walking dead deeply alarming; Death for a long time was constant, but rarely so monumental or, seemingly inevitable. This ruthlessness is radical for television and, in particular, for Sunday night television, which for a long time was a warm center of the week of watching the country. These are supports Walking dead become the most terrible television show in a more than literal sense; This destroys emotions now, and not just vkort.
On Saturday evening, as at a time when most children are at home, counting their candy, the premiere of the premiere with two cooling, each of which seeks to maintain the light of Jack-O'-Landern in November. Although Sundancetv's He returned returned to the second season – I liked the first – his Starz's Ash against the evil of the dead This is actually more familiar from the couple. This is because he raises a baggy story that first began in 1978, when two disappointed dramatic dramas of the Middle West named Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell took a bloody short In the forestA field of this fragment of spraying a cult empire appeared from this fragment: trilogy Favorite filmsplus many video games, comics and Unlimited possibilities For cosplay. The only connecting fabric between all this: the unique Raysi prone to hit/aesthetic aesthetics and Campbell’s performance as Ashley Esh Williams, one of the hands, in the possession of the spirit-summer NecronomiconWhen the ghouls come in the field, they call Pepe, as a rule, to send them using a fusylle from single -line and a gun. No more than the mountains to climb a large screen ( Kinematographic reboot Fizzed in 2013) and no more Spider-Man dancing For the choreographer, they took their trade chain saw with one border left for them: a small screen.
Here's something about Ash against the evil of the dead: This is good. Better, this is fun in stupid, infectious ways, which is a polar opposite Walking deadCompliance with lameness. You do not need to have any acquaintance with the history or humor of the franchise before tuning up. I would say that the first installation of the now 57-year-old Campbell, trying to squeeze into the belt, is a pretty good performance, like a scene in which a detective of Michigan (Jill Mari Jones) on a bealed race, ultraliza, ultraliz, more stable, more stable, more stable, attacked, more stable, attack cycling. melons. What is wonderful Ash against the evil of the dead Doesn't this take himself seriously – although, come on, this is completely wrong. This is what he chooses and chooses the details very carefully must To be seriously treated. Thus, Campbell-Uda, Iberic-de-Bellot from Bams, is thinking as much as the General Ash, as he makes swaddling with a grunning chain. And Raimi, who led the first hour and Cowrote or produced the remaining nine, fills every jump with a high jump, throwing demons with both gravity and wit. With his severed limbs and links to Shabbos dinner, this is not a show of your father's horrors. This is your stupid uncle. And thank God for this.
At the other end of the spectrum He returned. If Ash against the evil of the dead This is the erupting artery of joy, the French series is a strict Mortis itself. In the first season, the inhabitants of the remote mountain town were canceled when their dead relatives suddenly returned to life, seemingly unharmed and frozen at the age when they expired. So: the teenage girl suddenly reunited with her barely teenage twin, the young mother visits the bride who committed suicide when she was pregnant, the owner of the bar, who happily buried his murderous brother many years ago, must find a way to take him back to his orbit. Of course, this is a bold premise, and a smaller show would refuse pressure to give answers. But beauty He returned It was uncomfortable, in which he asked his difficult questions, as it allowed his impossible dream of a prerequisite, he subtly and slowly twisted into a sour nightmare.
In the second season, He returned It remains the same, as always, with different and elliptical. A little show is just as beautifully beautiful; Its taste of ghostly gray and sharp, metallic light involves the work of the impressionist T-1000. And the music, again written by the Scottish poets of the noise of Mogwai, is thin and destructive. The stream cleared the city, and the dead created their own society in the mountains. The non -national arrival of the child Adele (Clotilde Hesme) – it was saturated with a very dead Simon (Pierre Perrer) last season – this is what the plot drives, but, the truth is that the plot seems almost secondary in such a terrible landscape. Really, He returned It does not scare as much as it pursues. On such a show, it is alive, which slowly throws its masks to open the scars hiding below. Supernatural is just a mirror for the frightening possibilities of human nature. It is this psychological dismemberment, not bloody, more literal, in which television has historically succeeded. This is because when the film ends, you can quickly leave the theater and retreat to the quiet safety of the house. On TV, the most terrible attractions always go From the inside House.
