When maple syrup farmer Ruth Landry finds her livelihood under attack from greedy competitors who were once her friends, she hatches a plan to get revenge and shake up the industry. I want to start by mentioning that I went into this show with average to low expectations, so there were no major disappointments or any real surprises. I knew about the real maple theft, I saw the preview, and I thought it would be a fun watch.
And it might be a fun watch, if you’re interested in a low-quality rip-off of Fargo by people who don’t understand any of the working ingredients of the Coen brother’s films. And I guess you could say that all the little elements they ripped from other movies could be homages and hat tips if they didn’t feel so clumsy and inappropriately confident in their own uniqueness. There’s a certain conceit to the writing and directing that, frankly, isn’t earned.
It’s the end of the telephone game, and the line is almost unrecognizable. The only real draw to the show, the one that kept me watching until the end, was the cast. I give it 100%, even though the characters were all the same archetypes that actors seem to always play these days.
It seems like certain cast members can’t escape the type of cast that captured them. I want a better lineup for them, even though they are really great at what they have been constantly caught up in what they do.. “One Hundred Years of Solitude”; is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month.
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