Alex Pina, creator and producer of “Money Heist”, released his newest Netflix series: “White Lines” this past Friday, may 15th. I was very much exited and looking forward to watching it, but I most confess I found myself quite disappointed. I guess, like the title of this post suggests; that not every creator’s makings can be jewels.
The show is about this girl “Zoe”, who after twenty years of her brother’s (Axel) disappearance, uncovers new information about it and decides to take action and find out exactly what happened to him, for there was not much of a resolution when he first went missing. Along ten lengthy episodes we follow Zoe in her relentless quest for information, truth and closure, but while doing so, you may find yourself a bit bored.
I must say that I couldn’t help but hate the main character Zoe, she is such a brat and tends to be very annoying (which I guess was kind of the point), but she really is exhausting. She behaves like such a child, trying to get her way, throwing tantrum after tantrum here and there, based on her claims that her life was messed up, everyone lied to her and her so called desperate quest for a proper answer to who Axel’s murderer is, but she is in fact just quite irrational. She never thinks anything through and simply acts on the spot; guided by whichever emotion she is fed by after every new bit of information she encounters; which drags out a whole lot of trouble, not only for her but also for the people around her, that are only trying to help her in the first place. She is, I guess, the type of person that people can’t help but love and want to take under their wind for whatever reason; from the very beginning she is taken in by one of her brother’s friends, actually his best friend: Marcus. Her being her irrational self, simply jumps to conclusions right from the start and wrecks havoc on Marcus’s life for no reason whatsoever, other then her assumptions (which are never correct, by the way).
The show goes on, episode after episode with this delusional, unstable person wrecking havocs in the life of everyone that has the misfortune of crossing parhs with her. So you see how this can be quite annoying and pretty tiring very soon.
The whole premise of the show is finally debunked on the final episode and I’m sorry to say, feels quite unnecessary. For starters; the truth should have surfaced way sooner if you ask me, feels like they dragged the premise for way too long and it just leaves you feeling like you wasted a bit of your time.
In the end they pose a cliffhanger, that was no cliffhanger at all (at least not for me), a very short scene where Zoe apparently finally gets closure and is ready to move on, and Marcus presenting Kalafad with a new business proposition.
On the plus side, the show was brilliantly produced, you can’t deny the effort that was put into it, the cast was brilliant and the photography was simply stunning, not to mention the music.
As a side note, I would like to humbly and respectfully request Mr. Pina to produce and release the “prequel” to this story, because the bits and pieces we see about Axel’s life throughout the show, are the true gold of the whole series and something that I think most of the audience would be interested in watching, as it proves to be far more interesting and entertaining then following Zoe around on her quest.
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