The pilot and first episode of this series are wonderful examples of tight direction, facile editing, witty writing and fine acting. However, the director, Euros Lyn, of this episode blows it with inept editing and awful camerawork (although that can also be blamed on cinematographer Steve Lawes). Lyn and Lawes love to frame their subjects up super close so the characters go out of frame too often, hiding important elements of the plot and causing great frustration for the viewer. It's almost as if they hate their audience.
Even worse, Lyn and Lawes love to mix out-of-focus with in-focus in the same shot so that the image is constantly hard to see and distracting. Your eye is always trying to determine what is important to the plot. There's no flow to the editing, either. What a waste with such acting talent and wonderful scripts.
The user reviews drop down an entire point on IMDB from the previous episodes. While 7.9 could be a respectable score, it's far below the previous episodes. How can any director and/or cinematographer screw up such wonderful source material?
Even worse, Lyn and Lawes love to mix out-of-focus with in-focus in the same shot so that the image is constantly hard to see and distracting. Your eye is always trying to determine what is important to the plot. There's no flow to the editing, either. What a waste with such acting talent and wonderful scripts.
The user reviews drop down an entire point on IMDB from the previous episodes. While 7.9 could be a respectable score, it's far below the previous episodes. How can any director and/or cinematographer screw up such wonderful source material?