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Landscapers (2021)
Joke of a show and a cruelly unjust punishment
Chris and Susan are a couple focused around Susan's trauma of her helicopter parents and rapist paedophilic father, and a codependent husband who only lives for her. Both are infatuated with each other.
The show makes a mockery of everyone, especially making the police look unprofessional, stupid, compulsive swearers, and taking a nonsensical hypothesis as 100% fact and celebrating it like they've found a cure for cancer. It also makes the couple "cold-hearted killers". I love the effects the show can do and the atmosphere it can set, but it really is nothing else but a joking mess with its severely linear thinking. The humour is nothing but offensive. The show isn't trying to make the police look like stupid polarised thinkers, but that's exactly how it comes across.
The case alone would make an amazing documentary. This show is just making fun of victims that just happened to go on to kill (in a way, by self-defence). It felt like the case of Gypsy Blanchard ever since the start. They are not serial killers, nor are they repeat offenders, nor was there intent to kill or harm anyone. It was in the heat of the moment, and her mother had the gun readily available for Susan to have access to during that row. The justice system is pathetically stupid when people worse than this and with intent to reoffend only get a few years if any jail time at all, and both of these people are getting a life sentence. Nevermind there's no therapy, and it was frowned against to be sent to therapy or a mental hospital back then. People like this can be helped and brought to safety if we stop taking people's words at face-value and stop believing in simple-minded lies, and begin to read their body language and reactions to traumatic events. That also equates to not immediately warping speaking, or not speaking at all, into whatever you want to hear. Many people don't tell the truth and write their own narrative, although there are people who do nothing but the truth, which stays concise throughout, unless, yet again, others warp the narrative. The show seems to have difficulty understanding the differentiation between fiction and reality. Maybe that's why they used it so much. Just because you're obsessed with the COD game doesn't mean you're guaranteed to be a cold-blooded killer, just as much as being a part of the army doesn't mean you're more likely to murder someone. It's a stupid example, especially to use in court almost as if the correlation is guaranteed?! There is zero evidence.
Reforming is 100% possible with people like this. There was no malice in the crime. Not even justice. The damage her abusive parents did was already done and that would never be forgotten. The show is making the court look like manipulative gaslighters. Trying to twist reality, and assuming that Susan being silent equates to the slander as truth... as if any victim has that much of an ego to be able to speak up against something like that and not stay the punching bag. Chris might be autistic, although I am unsure, but he definitely has his own problems albeit not as severe; though telling the truth all of the time wasn't "he was so proud that he thought he could get away with it", that's the last resort of a criminal. If that were the case, he wouldn't have waited all of those years to confess. If anything, him confessing proves that he has guilt in the murder. He literally gave them his identity. The biggest fault on his end was that he thought that the police would've been able to share the same viewpoint, but these police in particular wanted nothing to do with that, only to celebrate every second their warped delusion of the crime goes the way they can twist it against them. Honesty isn't something you can twist, yet the police seemed to do that just fine. Say you got rid of all of your guns for the sake of your wife? Apparently that means you're a professional at murder. Not that he cares more about her than he cares about his hobby.
Her being too afraid of guns? That doesn't automatically mean that she never could've shot her mother, or that her being afraid is a lie. There are plenty of people who would shoot the person who is threatening their life, and yes, they're afraid of guns. When a person's life is on the line or there is fear of being harmed, humans can do indescribable things. Someone who has no experience with trauma would not understand that, and so the unprofessional police and the judge can not fully understand the crime. At the end of the story, it didn't look like they understood a thing at all and just decided to write their own narrative, assume a million things about them, and lack any form of open-mindedness. And no, the show isn't mocking the police intentionally. It's promoting their idiocy by projecting it onto the couple.
The show even thinks that Lancing's attempt at harming her parent was okay. The hypocrisy is cruel.
The story without the director's tinkering shows that Susan is a very mentally ill person. The fantasy aspect of it tries to toy with that and pretend that it's not something that serious and shouldn't be treated as such. Chris and Susan aren't living in a fantasy the way the police see it, if anything, it's the police that are forcing a portrayal of fantasy. They are creating their own narrative. The lack of empathy shown in this show is vomit-inducing and only feels like these detectives are on their high horse of superiority, that they can say whatever they want at the expense of others. Crime cases do not shove whatever they think down the culprit's throat and deem any form of response as proof, nor pretend that Susan's abusive parents were innocent and victims. It's as if nobody had a clue what they were talking about and just wanted to rush the prison sentencing to get paid for the day.
Everything in the show is incredibly perceived in black and white (see what I did there?). Being idiotic equates to being a good guy, and being vulnerable equates to being a bad guy. That's all it is here. And I could go on about the manipulation everyone was doing throughout to both of them. Especially the "innocence" at the beginning and ending of the show. They do not think they are innocent in the deluded way that the police think. They are aware they killed her mother. Pretending that someone's self-defence equates to "cold-hearted murderer" just because you don't understand psychology ain't a sweet thing to do. Killing someone in defence is by definition, to an extent, innocent. The person is dead, but that's not what they think they are innocent for. Everything was thrown out of the window and pretended like it didn't exist if it made them look innocent. It's such a deluded case where they will never fathom the innocence in this. Everyone must've been amateurs, because I can't imagine any cop acting like this otherwise. The police are the only ones living in a fairy tale. Chris' and Susan's bond has a name. And it still is far more realistic than whatever random conclusion the police came up with that has zero correlation with anything concise.
Limetown (2019)
Rushed ending
The first few episodes were absolutely amazing. Napoleon is easily a 9 or above for me. A really good story with very upsetting moments.
The ending, though, oh dear, it was severely rushed and straightforward. The whole story got summed up in the final episode with someone literally TELLING Lia the answers. That is literally the worst thing you could do. The mystery and discovery became useless at that point.