![]() The show has the potential to become an export as beloved as shows like “Wallander” and “The Fall” - too smart for the mainstream and pleasing for those of us who consider ourselves above watching “Bones. It doesn’t condescend to its audience with heavy foreshadowing. There are some inventive twists and well-placed comic moments. 5.0 10 reviews SuperhostBaha Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires. Aside from his skills with bleach and a Q-tip, there’s very little so far that compels one to root for this hero to succeed.īut that’s hardly a reason to dismiss the show entirely. Defined from the outset as a cheater, he comes across as pensive brat whose hot, supportive wife isn’t enough to keep him satisfied. Like a knock-off Jonathan Rhys Myers, he’s aloof and unapproachably handsome. What will make us tune in week after week on “Spotless” when Jean will presumably be cleaning his way out of trouble?īy the rules of American television, there has to be something likeable or at least admirable about our protagonist Jean. But the crucial question is, Where will the suspense lie? In “Breaking Bad” the fun was derived from watching this brilliant scientist outsmart his foes using his considerable skills. In just the first two episodes, the show’s creators - Ed McCardie and Corinne Marrinan of “Shameless” and “CSI” respectively - have presented some potentially compelling characters. Show' Revival Picks Up Where Original Left Off This won’t end well.Īlso Read: 'W/ Bob and David' Review: Netflix's 'Mr. He enlists Jean as his own personal murder Swiffer, there to clean up his villainous trail. He falls within the orbit of mob boss Nelson Clay, played by Brendan Coyle (better known as Bates, the source of the most boring plot lines on “Downton Abbey”). It’s only when his estranged brother comes back into town - carting with him a dead drug mule with a stomach full of saleable heroin - that Jean goes rogue. Spotless (TV Series 2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. As an adult, Jean is still trying to scrub it away, running his own crime scene cleanup business for which he regularly gets elbow deep in enough blood and brain splatter to make the set designers of “Dexter” salivate. Haunted by a childhood trauma that appears in flashback to have taken place in post-apocalyptic Panem (but it was probably just somewhere in the French countryside), Jean and his brother Martin (played as an adult by Denis Ménochet) are involved in a gruesome crime. ![]() In “Spotless,” the first scripted drama series from Esquire, we find another hero who is forced to ply his craft at the service of the underworld, hoping to maintain the crumbling facade of his happy middle class life.īut that’s where the paths of Walter White and Jean Bastiere (André Grondin) diverge. ![]() Walter White of “Breaking Bad,” for example, was pressed into the service of meth-making once bills and a cancer diagnosis gave him few alternatives. Whether or not this will be something we want to hold onto or have zapped from our memories, remains to be seen.Desperate men make for great drama. In fact, the only thing we do know is that Chuck scribe Zev Borow has been tapped to write the series. Neither will Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, whose undeniable chemistry as Joel and Clementine-the couple who erase their memories to get over the demise of their relationship-was central to making the film work. The trailer for 'Spotless' (Vlekkeloos) by Emma Branderhorst, starring Alicia Prinsen, Astrid van Eck, Wendy Ruijfrok and Ilva Los. That doesn't change the fact, however, that Gondry and Charlie Kaufman-the brilliant duo who directed and wrote the film respectively-won't be involved. They also produced the original film, which does give us a glimmer of hope for the reboot. Robot and True Detective, is the one developing the series. The good news is that Anonymous Content, the production company behind Mr. Take, for instance, the news that Michel Gondry’s modern masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind will become a TV series. And though we can't blame the powers that be for wanting to take advantage of properties with built-in concepts and audiences, some movies are sacred and should be left alone. ![]() Actor: Marc-Andr Grondin, Miranda Raison, Denis Mnochet. Ever since the massive success of FX's Fargo, networks have been eager to turn Hollywood's most sacred movies into television shows. His brother entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
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