Patchista
I wish the producers had made this into a mini series and given the secondary characters more to do (they are wonderfully written in the book). There is certainly enough of a story there. Still, the two main actors are portrayed well and really embody their characters.
Charles Herold (cherold)
As a fan of the Cormoran Strike books, I looked forward to seeing them brought to life. But ultimately I felt like they were only half brought to life.It's hard to say what it is, exactly. I thought the leads were well cast. The first episode has a very stylish, intriguing intro. But the series just lacks personality. I watched all from the first book and found it nothing but watchable. The first book's strength was its more realistic portrayal of detective work as painstaking and detail oriented, but that is, unsurprisingly, flattened out in the adaptation. While the first series left me cold, I still watched the first episode of the second season, which comes from my favorite book in the series Once again, I just found it difficult to keep interested. I decided I would stop there.While perfectly watchable and fairly true to the series, it all just lacks something. I was never pulled into the characters lives or into the mysteries.
carolratedr
I haven't read the book,but all I can say is that if you are a true fan of crime novels,and murder mysteries, you will find this story extremely trite,and disappointing. The characters are extremely basic, there is no motivation or purpose behind these one dimensional people,and it was simply a " murder by numbers" story. It was so basic, so uninteresting,and I guessed at who the killer was at the very start of the show, only as a joke,and was severely disappointed when it turned out to be that person. By this person being the killer made the whole story redundant and ridiculous. There was no,logical reasoning behind the murder,and there was no logical, motive, nor was there any kind of logical sequence of actual police work or credibility to the investigation.There was no real intrigue, nor suspense. I have seen better investigations in games of cluedo.I found it all to be amateur,and if her publisher hadn't accidentally on purpose leaked that it was jk Rowling who wrote it, not a single copy of this book would be sold,and Would never had been considered for being turned into a movie. The only redeeming factor I would say was they actually gave a realistic view of London,and it wasn't glamorized.It's an extremely basic book,basic story, could have been written by a teenager . It was extremely tedious , dull and anticlimactic. It was almost as though she didn't know what to do with her own story and hurriedly decided to make the character into a killer , last minute. I guess she got use to lazy writing, like she did in the last Harry Potter book,so thought it would work here. Ah well she is famous, so she could wipe snot on a piece of paper and people would pay through the nose for it.
