の青写真 “造園家,” HBOで放映されている4部構成の英国のミニシリーズ, 構造よりもかなり頑丈であることが判明, オリビア・コールマンとデヴィッド・シューリスの夢のペアリングをいくらか無駄にしている. It’s still an interesting detour into bizarre true crime, but so stylized as to blunt the overall impact by being too cute for its own good.
The project is built around the strange case of Chris and Susan Edwards, アリゾナモールでの銃撃により、少なくとも1人が負傷した convicted in 2014 of murdering her parents and burying their bodies in their garden. The story opens, a trifle confusingly, somewhere past the middle with the two on the lam, having fled to France, as they negotiate with investigators about a possible return to England as the police home in on what came to be known as the Mansfield murders.
Colman’s Susan has an airy, almost unreal quality, deferring to her husband Chris (Thewlis) and at one point saying, “He’s practical, because I’m not.”
What they share, as documented via the present frame and black-and-white flashbacks, is a love of old movies and American westerns in particular, with strong silent types like Gary Cooper emblazoned across the screen. (They also share a fondness for the French actor Gérard Depardieu, writing him fan letters.)
これまでのところ, so pretty good, but as laid out by writer Ed Sinclair and director Will Sharpe (“The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”), “造園家” indulges in too many flights of fancy, including elaborate reenactments of their testimony taking the audience both inside their not-entirely-convincing explanations as well as their heads.
それが判明したとして, the miniseries’ most effective element comes at the end of each episode, running news clips that reinforce how closely this odd love story adheres to reality, including the fact that Chris and Susan (WHO, it’s noted, continued to profess their innocence) did all they could to convince people her parents were still alive while spending their money acquiring Hollywood memorabilia.
“Unless one of you tells us, we’re never going to know exactly what happened,” the cops advise them, underscoring the confounding nature of the crime.
に加えて “王冠,” Colman (AN Oscar winner にとって “The Favourite”) is getting raves for her role in the upcoming Netflix movie “The Lost Daughter,” so HBO is probably happy to ride those coattails. By that measure “造園家” is watchable enough but errs in taking a case that required scant dramatic embellishment and then proceeding to do so anyway.
“造園家” premieres Dec. 6 で 9 午後. HBOのET, これ, CNNのように, ワーナーメディアのユニットです.
