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There are shows that hang you from the first thirty seconds, and others that are so repellants from the start that you have to take refuge in a dark sensory room. Netflix Whodunnit The residenceFor example, places in the old division, and whoever spent a childhood studying the torn pages of Archie The comics would be the first to tell you that Riverdale takes on the latter’s glory crown. Disney + thriller The stolen girlHowever, does not occupy or support.
Instead, this thriller filled with insane bordeaux for twists and turns (imagine a screw made from plaque molded by a three -year -old child) falls into this other category of neglected but nevertheless appreciated television: background noise. If you are looking for something you can take a nap on the sofa but you don’t have the energy to go upstairs to go to bed like a sensible person, congratulations. The stolen girl is the answer to the prayers of a tired insomniac.
Been there, did that
Containing a little less charm than static radio, this completely forgettable thriller, adapted from the novel Date of play By Alex Dahl, is presented as the worst nightmare of all parents. Covering five episodes, The stolen girl Circles around a girl who is, well, stolen. Denise Gough (Anora) plays the role of Elisa, our irresponsible mother designated, even if she does not like that you call it so.
Elisa is carefree enough to allow her nine-year-old daughter, Lucia, to attend a pajamas evening after having been friendly with a white woman-blonde suspected of qualifying Rebecca (Holliday Graininger de Strike). The charming Rebecca also has a daughter of the same age as Lucia, and one thing leads another, Elisa agreeing to let her daughter spend the night with Rebecca – a decision that she will warmly regret for the rest of the show.
For all mothers who are already wary of too talkative women at the gates of the school, The stolen girl is an excellent example of the reason they should not trust. Unfortunately for Elisa, Rebecca has her own program which, at this stage, refused to share with the public. For the moment, all we know is that she has set in motion a sly plan to divert Lucia away from her family for the best known reasons. It discharges most of the big part of the work to a doubtful man similar to a manufacturer who, fortunately for a police force otherwise without inspiration, ends up being incompetent enough to be filmed in a key place on CCTV.
Whether Rebecca does this just for kicks or because she has taken a special aversion to Elisa is something that will become clear later, but do not worry if you give in to this insomnia and will lack most of the explanation. In addition, do not be alarmed, upon waking, to learn that Rebecca is now called Nina, has passed to a brunette and speaks French. Yes, she leads a double life.
Yes, she knows one thing or two about the removal. No, she doesn’t always choose the best henchmen. Yes, she knows how to eliminate said problematic men. Yes, she has her reasons. No, his adaptation method is not really what a trained therapist would recommend. Yes, Elisa deserves everything that was heading for her. In short, there is nothing here that has not already been made of moments in a Harlan Coben thriller (in book or screen format) on a troubled past that catches up with you.
Buy -back qualities?
In terms of conspiracy, the short answer is: no. As it is the standard practice of this special fictional brand involving criminals that run away with children, there is not a single police officer with an imagination or an initiative. Of course, fans of thrillers and police fiction already know that expecting large brains from a police force, it’s like flying a pigeon through an open window and expecting blind obedience when you tell him to leave. In other words, you would be more likely to transform lead into gold. In the opening episode of SherlockFor example, the titular character of Benoît Cumberbatch accuses a particular detective of having lowered the Qi of all the street.
While the police The stolen girl May not be as obvious as the policeman who has annoyed Sherlock so much, they are always slow (or at the very least, without motivation) to be overwhelmed by the young Selma, a journalist who is brown, feminine and homosexual, checking three boxes of diversity at one time.
Selma’s desire to live is being undermined in front of covering the reports on stray pigs. However, dull than the dishes work did not decrease the spark of this journalist, and his antenna begins to Twang after having amazed Elisa’s repeated calls on Instagram to help find her daughter. Selma decides, on the basis of the lack of presence of Elisa’s social media until a few years ago, that something is “deactivated” about her. The lesson to be learned here is that if you have never bored to create an Instagram account because you do not see the interest, you too can find yourself at the mercy of a journalist who is bored after writing Pork content.
And so, Selma begins her survey, performing a simple inverted Google image to identify a key evidence, which is not something that comes to anyone in the investigation team. Does she succeed? Is Elisa gathered with Lucia? Rebecca / Nina get her comedy? Is Selma never promoted?
By all means, browse and discover by yourself, but do not fall for IMDB reviews in the ravages on “twists and turns” and “pivotal role of a journalist” or a “layer script”. There is no soundtrack that will block in your head, nor any character whose decisions make sense. The actors do their best with the material given to them. You do not have the hope of discovering any of the twists and turns for yourself, so at least the burden of trying to unravel the plot is removed.
For the shallow brigade there, there is a little glimmer of hope here, and it is Jim Sturgess, who plays Fred, the father of Lucia and the criminal husband of Elisa. If you are in the grip of repeated thought that the Fred in the air painfully confused is much more like a boyband singer much more than a member of the legal profession, you are not quite wrong.
Sturgess’s other pretension to glory is to play Jude Through the universe (2007), from where he spent a large part of his time in Serenade his love of choice with Beatles songs and a dick of a eyebrow. Sturgess seems to have aged barely a week since his days Jude, and if we can get their hands on the anti-aging potion where he is, everything is not lost.
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