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Post by goodhelenstar on Jul 31, 2023 21:23:25 GMT
Anyone see this? Seriously odd and not for the faint-hearted, it's a very black comedy drama that has a nod to the Coen brothers films, macabre and funny by turns. It was pretty clearly signposted that the two police officers visiting the posh house in the country are not what they seem, though precisely who they are is not yet clear. And Jack's relationship with his girlfriend (didn't catch her name) is weird.
The cake looked good though!
Wolf continues tomorrow evening and then Monday and Tuesday of next week.
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Post by linseed on Jul 31, 2023 21:34:09 GMT
Yes, I saw it - having seen the trailers I knew the “policemen” were not what they seemed. Rather creepy but I’ll keep watching for now.
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Post by kakewalk on Jul 31, 2023 22:41:36 GMT
We saw it, but had no idea what to expect as I hadn’t taken much notice of the trailers. I didn’t suss the ‘police officers’ until he helped himself to the cake, but it’s utterly gripping, and I can’t say I’ve noticed much humour in it yet. I think your likening it to a Coen brothers production, Helen, is rather apt! I think I get it now.
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Post by vicky on Aug 1, 2023 5:58:39 GMT
I'm not sure whether I will bother to watch tonight or not. I found it hard to get to grips with who was who and exactly where it was going. It made me feel as though it was a follow-on series from another that I hadn't seen. Is it? It was as though we were supposed to know the characters and their back-stories and I spent so long pondering that aspect that any developing story was almost lost to me. Apart from the preposterous "policemen" who so obviously weren't, I didn't detect any comedy, black or otherwise and even they weren't funny.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 1, 2023 7:50:50 GMT
I don't think so Vicky, but it is apparently a mash-up of two of the source novels with some invented sections to connect what were originally two separate stories.
That was done a while ago with two other novels by a different author and with a similarly confusing effect. I can't remember the details but it may come to me!
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Post by sootycat on Aug 1, 2023 10:42:57 GMT
It was odd...I will carry on watching though.
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Post by vicky on Aug 1, 2023 11:28:03 GMT
The girl friend and all that business to do with her lying about having cancer (I thought she was going to say she was pregnant) seemed superfluous to me. I couldn't see the point unless it was a device for her not appearing again. If so, why include her in the first place? By the way, what on earth was it that twice splashed against the window and made the Juliet Stevenson character jump out of her skin? No-one else seemed bothered and there was no explanation. All very weird.The more I think about it the more sure I am I won't carry on watching.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 1, 2023 11:55:39 GMT
Me too! Perhaps they thought that was too much of a cliche ...
After the second time she said it was the sprinkler. Not very well aimed and a bit violent! And we didn't see it outside, though the kitchen may be at the back of the house.
Did you notice that Jack has an old wound on his thumbnail that we've been shown in close-up a couple of times? Could be significant, who knows!
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Post by linseed on Aug 1, 2023 12:05:25 GMT
Yes I thought the girlfriend was going to say she was pregnant, but the fake cancer thing was really creepy. What would she do that for? Attention? He is well out of that relationship. Some of the things may be to show the timeline in later parts, the fact that we see the pet dog being in the house and next thing it was in the shack with the old man who found it with a message saying “help us” shows that it’s a later period, so wonder if it’s the same thing with the thumbnail
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Post by vicky on Aug 1, 2023 12:52:43 GMT
"Did you notice that Jack has an old wound on his thumbnail that we've been shown in close-up a couple of times? Could be significant, who knows!"
Yes I did notice that because I have an almost identical one on my thumbnail! I managed to shut it in my back door. That was nearly eight weeks ago and it looks as big a mess as ever. I am very self conscious about it which is why I noticed Jack's.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Aug 1, 2023 17:28:00 GMT
I caught this by chance last night and I got drawn in. Most weird. I need to watch the whole episode properly and I know I'll want to watch the rest.
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Post by hoodylover on Aug 1, 2023 18:41:03 GMT
Yes, I’ve watched the first two now. I will stick with it. I need to know the proper solution(s). I think if I were the posh folks who own the big house with no phone signal, I would have sold it immediately following the murders taking place so close by. Still, “Nowt as queer as folk” as my Gran used to say. Sacha Dhawan still seems to think he’s playing The Master (Doctor Who) |
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 1, 2023 19:59:31 GMT
Tilly said no one in the area could sell after the murders. I'm sure they would have if they could.
Bit daft of them going to the middle of nowhere after heart surgery though even with no murders!
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Post by kakewalk on Aug 1, 2023 21:29:39 GMT
It’s mad. MAD I tell you! But I’m totally loving it. Loved the scene with Figaro playing 🤣
I must say, it’s very un-BBC. Good on ‘em 👍
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Post by marion on Aug 2, 2023 10:55:33 GMT
I have only watched episode 1 so far but I thought the scenes with the two policemen were very reminiscent of Joe Orton.
I checked out the writer on Fantastic Fiction and there are 9 books about Jack and Wolf is the most recent, so it seemed odd not to start at the beginning. And also odd to combine 2 unrelated novels.
Persuading your partner you have cancer so you can spend more time at yoga retreats is a bit extreme isn’t it? I didn’t like her from the start. Don’t be tidying up a room he has asked you not to touch. I do find the character of Jack a bit flat though. And if I moved in with someone and he spent every night in his brother’s room obsessing, and spying on the neighbour, I think I would swiftly move out.
I had breast cancer and don’t remember a routine test where your veins turn blue… I did have something like that in a visit to nuclear medicine when I had an injection which turned most of my arm black as if I’d been punched, prior to a scan, but that was a real palaver not a routine test. And at a specialist hospital department not my GP. So what was that all about?
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Anymore to come?
