Soldato
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Saw the thread by @Gunni Parker on films, but I'm more interested in series these days.
Which series have you watched that have been unlike those that came before, with original storylines, affects, sequence editing etc..
I feel that with series we don't actually have to go as far back in time to find great originality as we do with movies.
I'll start with two my favourites:
Les Revenants (The Returned) - French, dark, mysterious, eerie, series of people seemingly returning from the dead and going about their old lives. The US did an adaptation (it comes from a book) called Resurrection, that failed, so they remade the French version and called it 'The Returned'
The OA - US show written by Brit Marling. Sci-fi, mystery about a blind girl who disappears then returns with her sight. Great storying telling. Episode lengths vary dramatically from 20mins to 1 hour, meaning it something could only be shown on streaming like Netflix as traditional TV is well, traditional.
Which series have you watched that have been unlike those that came before, with original storylines, affects, sequence editing etc..
I feel that with series we don't actually have to go as far back in time to find great originality as we do with movies.
I'll start with two my favourites:
Les Revenants (The Returned) - French, dark, mysterious, eerie, series of people seemingly returning from the dead and going about their old lives. The US did an adaptation (it comes from a book) called Resurrection, that failed, so they remade the French version and called it 'The Returned'
The OA - US show written by Brit Marling. Sci-fi, mystery about a blind girl who disappears then returns with her sight. Great storying telling. Episode lengths vary dramatically from 20mins to 1 hour, meaning it something could only be shown on streaming like Netflix as traditional TV is well, traditional.