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Gone (2026)
Sep. 9th, 2026 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mllesatineI'm trying to get through the first episode of "Gone", a 2026 crime drama from ITV. Arthur Hughes is in it and I really like him but the going is fucking tough.
Bizzare characterisation and odd direction in the first ten minutes. "The headmaster becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife" is the premise so we see him silencing his rugby team after a win, another woman asks him if it's okay if she walks the dog now that he is home (is that his neighbour?) and then his daughter immediately turns to him when her mother isn't in the house. "Where is she, Dad?" she asks seriously but without any sense of urgency. Wow, everybody is walking on eggshells around this guy. I wonder if this means he is guilty...
Annie, the detective assigned to the case, is trying to reconcile her relationship to her partner (husband?) at a restaurant. They are being interrupted by a waiter coming and topping up their wine glasses from a giant decanter. Isn't wine traditionally bought by the glass or bottle? It's enough to completely distract me from the scene. No idea who that guy was and why they can't be together.
One of my pet peeves when watching TV is when a person arrives somewhere with a car and just happenes to find a parking spot directly in front of the building they want to go into. In "Gone" they forgot that people will probably park close to the rugby pitch their kids are playing on. There is a ten second aerial shot of the school, the grounds and the rugby pitch but no fucking cars anywhere near. I guess they all walked.
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE.
The daughter points out that her mom's reading glasses are left in the house so "she can't have gone very far". Because you need reading glasses to walk? And you can't possible leave them at home because what if you have to read some fine print on your way to work.
What kind of alien worked as a script supervisor on this show?
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In other news: Lanterns (HBO) is really good.
Bizzare characterisation and odd direction in the first ten minutes. "The headmaster becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife" is the premise so we see him silencing his rugby team after a win, another woman asks him if it's okay if she walks the dog now that he is home (is that his neighbour?) and then his daughter immediately turns to him when her mother isn't in the house. "Where is she, Dad?" she asks seriously but without any sense of urgency. Wow, everybody is walking on eggshells around this guy. I wonder if this means he is guilty...
Annie, the detective assigned to the case, is trying to reconcile her relationship to her partner (husband?) at a restaurant. They are being interrupted by a waiter coming and topping up their wine glasses from a giant decanter. Isn't wine traditionally bought by the glass or bottle? It's enough to completely distract me from the scene. No idea who that guy was and why they can't be together.
One of my pet peeves when watching TV is when a person arrives somewhere with a car and just happenes to find a parking spot directly in front of the building they want to go into. In "Gone" they forgot that people will probably park close to the rugby pitch their kids are playing on. There is a ten second aerial shot of the school, the grounds and the rugby pitch but no fucking cars anywhere near. I guess they all walked.
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE.
The daughter points out that her mom's reading glasses are left in the house so "she can't have gone very far". Because you need reading glasses to walk? And you can't possible leave them at home because what if you have to read some fine print on your way to work.
What kind of alien worked as a script supervisor on this show?
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In other news: Lanterns (HBO) is really good.