A detective, broken and bashed by his/her past.
A new assignment that, by chance(kind of obvious, or else there would be no story), finds this detective.
A town/city, which is aware of this person’s past. But only fragments of it.
They have assumptions and thus an opinion.
Do you all sympathize yet?… If not, wait for a while. Until the tempo picks up and we have some intercutting between his/her past and present.
Now then, that person is investigating the case, going around the town. Going places he/she should not go to, meeting people he/she should not meet. People. Remember, these are the people who have opinions about this person. Therefore conflict. Many conflicts ultimately ‘bring you close to this person.’ Somewhere in here ‘they’ will let you know about the wants and needs of this character. So that those overnight ‘film reviewers/aficionados’ can punch many posts about the character bullshit. (I’m talking about the ones on social media)
It has been what? 2 episodes..let’s assume 3 episodes have gone by. It’s obvious that up till now, the past has interfered with the present investigation, and that is fucking up the case.
But the person ignores the involvement of her/his previous wounds, “None of your business.” he/she yells.
But little did she/he realize that the only way through this investigation is by going back to those dry but open wounds and mending them. And only then he/she would be able to solve this case.
Yes, now things are close to all right in the past. We(that person) have faced a setback. But now we are ready and set to solve the case. And we(they) do solve the case. In this process, they also sort themselves.
(Do not forget the seasoning of some bullets, blood, abusive language, and a little thumping and moaning. Don’t you dare ask them why)
But, wait, they can’t just leave this story all happy and cheerful, smiles and butterflies.
I mean, they can, but what’s the point. What’s the point?… When you can’t even tell (or show. This thing about ‘show, don’t tell’ is kind of bs, what do you think?) your viewer that optimism and hope(and many more of these fancy words) are nothing but a bunch of complex hoaxes.
Yes, you are right. Maybe I’m being naive…or maybe, I’m not.
Or, perhaps you can ask yourself about this skeleton/blueprint that’s going around on all those OTT platforms.
I’m not saying that just because any show follows a convention, it is meant to be bad. It’s just the banality that attaches itself to these conventions.
