Deadloch: Episode #1.1 (2023)
Season 1, Episode 1
1/10
The worst first episode of a series I've ever seen.
20 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Let's see. In just the opening scenes we see:

1. A pretty explicit shot of a man's p-n-s on fire. (It's a corpse on a beach, and just that part of him is burning.)

2. Cut to... A female police officer performing oral sex on her wife.

3. A shot of garbage cans with ACAB graffiti.

4. The police officer's wife, a veterinarian, has to leave because an animal's leg has swelled up to the size of "a gonad."

5. A series of encounters with other characters who, without exception, behave annoyingly and exasperatingly. This is supposed to be funny but is instead just annoying and exasperating.

Just when you think the show may settle down, a new clown appears on the scene. It gets worse, not better. If you've struggled to deal with a group of impossible children, you will be reminded of the feeling as the episode progresses.

The juvenile writing and the accumulating number of irritating, unlikeable characters ruins this for me. I love a comedy/mystery, but I think I am giving up on this one.
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