jennyrock-70509
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This series was compelling from start to finish and infinitely bingeable. It could be my naïveté but I have done a lot of viewing and I felt that this was breaking into territory I've not seen before in terms of its ability to capture and communicate the internal states of the protagonists ....and we are not being told; we are being shown and it's palpable but not defined.
In any one episode, each honing in on a different aspect of what is involved in the arrest and charging and investigation of an adolescent, was arresting because of being provoking and stimulating in multiple directions. I'm not sure I've seen much that has me tapping into the perspective of so many of the protagonists on the screen at the same time.
There was a very interesting use of the camera at the end of critical scenes .....focussing from an oblique or behind angle, that would really drive home the vulnerability of that character. The camera work was quite exceptional. Even people who were in a much more minor role were brought to life in all their humanness.
The acting was supreme ...especially from the Jamie character and his dad. The script was intelligent and plausible.
It was poignant and moving, especially the final scene (made me think of Damian Lewis in the last episode of the Forster Saga - a scene that has stayed with me down through the decades in its capacity to move me) The psychological astuteness of this series reminds me of the In Treatment series that had Gabriel Byrne.
It wasn't necessarily making any kind of definitive statement but on show was the heartlessness of bureaucracy and the impossible role teachers have these days and great insight into how and why a child being arraigned could so easily break his family apart and the tricky and ethically questionable dance that court psychologists must do.
What music there was, was very well chosen and impactful.
Wonderful to see something of this quality again.
In any one episode, each honing in on a different aspect of what is involved in the arrest and charging and investigation of an adolescent, was arresting because of being provoking and stimulating in multiple directions. I'm not sure I've seen much that has me tapping into the perspective of so many of the protagonists on the screen at the same time.
There was a very interesting use of the camera at the end of critical scenes .....focussing from an oblique or behind angle, that would really drive home the vulnerability of that character. The camera work was quite exceptional. Even people who were in a much more minor role were brought to life in all their humanness.
The acting was supreme ...especially from the Jamie character and his dad. The script was intelligent and plausible.
It was poignant and moving, especially the final scene (made me think of Damian Lewis in the last episode of the Forster Saga - a scene that has stayed with me down through the decades in its capacity to move me) The psychological astuteness of this series reminds me of the In Treatment series that had Gabriel Byrne.
It wasn't necessarily making any kind of definitive statement but on show was the heartlessness of bureaucracy and the impossible role teachers have these days and great insight into how and why a child being arraigned could so easily break his family apart and the tricky and ethically questionable dance that court psychologists must do.
What music there was, was very well chosen and impactful.
Wonderful to see something of this quality again.
