Charming. Yes, this is the word best suited to describe the aftertaste after watching the pilot of the new Fox series Wayward Pines. By the way, about the difficult to pronounce name. The book by Blake Crouch, on which the series was movieed, is called "Pines", in English "Pines". The creators of the show decided to expand "Pines" to the name of the town, which can be translated from English as "Wayward Pines" or "Intractable Pines", which, in fact, corresponds to reality. Anyone who has been brought into this Idahovian pastoral by the hard will hardly be able to persuade these trees that have taken the path of crimes (one more meaning) to part and release the stranger from their grasping paws.
For those who have not watched the trailers or I have not read the book (like me), I will describe the plot in a nutshell. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, in search of two missing colleagues, moves towards Wayward Pines, gets into an accident and finds the strength to reach the city. He wakes up in a local hospital and already there begins to understand that something is wrong - he is not allowed to call, everyone with whom he communicates behaves more than strange, and in general, everything is like in a bad dream - and ndash; you want to run away, but your legs are plasticine ...
To be honest, there is a lot in the idea, in plot moves, in certain cliches, we are already familiar with – a city cut off from civilization ("Under the Dome"), an idyllic at first glance community ("Murder on the Beach"), an agent who came to investigate ("Twin Peaks"), the devilry happening - "around the eyes and ears" ("The X-Files ", Season 6, episode"
So, M. Night Shyamalan, whom it is now customary to scold, and who is once again given the "last chance" to prove something, finally decided to try his hand at television. Let's be honest: "Sixth Sense", "Invincible", "Mysterious Forest" - powerful movies, with their own mood and handwriting. Perhaps the latest failures - "The Lord of the Elements", "After our era" - were not so directorial as scriptural. In The Pines, Shyamalan was able to rehabilitate himself in some way. All forty-five minutes of pure time pass in an atmosphere of impending disaster, suspense and light madness mixed with horror. There are a lot of close-ups, and Shyamalan skillfully picks out the details on which the overall mood in mystical projects depends.
Now about the actors. Matt Dillon (Agent Burke) is elegant, fearless, resourceful and slightly vicious so as not to be too cloying; Melissa Leo (Nurse Pam) – a villainous woman who covered her dark thoughts with a boiling white uniform; Terrence Howard (Sheriff Arnold Pope) – eating an ice cream cone and saying: "I love rum raisins" is incomparable and truly scary; "disheveled" and courageous Juliet Lewis (barmaid Beverly), reminiscent of the young herself in "Cape Fear"; and, of course, the incredible Carla Gugino (Kate Houston's agent), which is just a pleasure to look at in any way.
As one of the producers of the show, Donald De Line, says, the fifth episode of the series will be a revelation, and we we will get answers to the questions, what kind of place it is, and what the main character forgot there. Experience shows that the simplest and most uncomplicated story can be turned into a real breakthrough, and vice versa - to bury a great idea with a mediocre production and a banal denouement. But now it’s impossible not to watch at least five episodes, especially since in the first episode several hooks with bait were thrown.
The Topic of Article: Pilot overview. Wayward Pines.
Author: Jake Pinkman |
