It's time for another post on The Shadow Line. As the series has progressed a few things have become clear:
- It's too long, and has too many characters. It would have been better as a shorter, less convoluted story.
- It's hard to follow, and it seems to take pride in this.
- There are still lots of TWNHs - for example a shop is turned into a fireball, and the two men inside walk away. Hmmm
- It's not as good as Psychoville 2, also showing on BBC 2.
Psychoville 2 is also a story with lots of characters. There's a mysterious man who goes around killing off the main characters. There's a woman who has a terminal illness, and her companion (her son in this case) is very upset by this. There are some mysterious powers at work. There are some gruesome killings (Oscar Lomax's hanging, for example) There is a shop that isn't what it seems (Hoyti Toyti, which turns out to have a cellar full of Nazi artifacts). However Psychoville manages to hold it together much more successfully, and isn't nearly as confusing.
I think maybe someone at the BBC was laughing to themselves when they they scheduled Psychoville 2 straight after The Shadow Line!
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