The first episode of the third series opened well then decended into nonsense. Second episode continued in that nonsensical way. Third episode actually managed to wrap things up decently and was more or less interesting and well executed but the ending was so straight forward and dull that it made no sense.
I mean they set up Mr Murdoch as being very security conscious and then when he flies them to his house no one pats them down...
Also making every bad guy and autistic servant is just painful.
Rupert isn't a high functioning autistic servant, his just an Australian with a stick up his arse that controls a huge chunk of the worlds media... That's bad enough ffs.
They could have done something far more interesting. I think they let themselves down by not bringing in a couple of new writers to add to the team, they needed to put more effort into the plotting and come up with something mind bendingly complicated.
(nonsensical)Rant over.
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There is no point in comparing British television to TV from the USA. To totally different beast and with the expansion of HBO and Netflix that's going completely out the window.
What a lot of the lay people don't get is that the film and television industry is completely incestuous within the Anglosphere. American shows are filmed all over the anglosphere and out side of it as well. You can find British ADs on Australian films, Australia DOPs on fucking everything. And the actors go bloody everywhere!
In Australia you can earn a decent living as an accent couch for American accents, it's super important for everyone to be able to go broad with their accents and luckily for the Australian actors the Australian accent is super adaptable.
Case in point Margot Robbie - a total babe, kick arse actor and very awesome person to boot just had a major role in Wolf of Wall Street.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3053338/?ref_=tt_cl_t3The notion of each area being a completely different beast isn't really true, but what is interesting is what happens when the money comes from different places.
Look at kick starter funded films vs studio vs indie vs government funded (BBC, Screen Australia) that's where the difference kicks in, in my opinion. By far the worst one is Screen Australia. They pump out utter shit. We used to make such fucking great movies but now we mostly pump out the same tired old shit, it's really sad. I'm actually leaving the country because of it, there's just no point in trying to make films here at the moment.
