Watching this series has reinforced my faith in the power of directing in a movie or show; so an average scenario could be elevated to a masterpiece with the right angles and acting employed, technical specifics brought to play, and wonderful use of that energy stuck in the margins of a storyboard. Likewise, a good scenario can be torn down to the ground with a directorship that likes to overspill bits and pieces of filmmaking. This series reminds me of what overspilling can do. It's as if the directors deliberately created gaps in acting or scenes so that they could repeat or amplify certain blanks and plant there the sounds/screams/typologies/moments of stupidity they wanted to brag about knowing. We already see too much affirmation of the very last feature on any random Müge Anli episode on TV. Why are the characters so swollen with banality? Why would we be content with stopping at that much if claiming to do dark comedy?
Review of Man on Pause
