Look ahead!
Talking about this series is really complicated. How to define it? At first, it seems like a crime drama—at least that's how the series "sells itself," but as the episodes progress, it demonstrates its true power: the story of three men frozen in time by a series of traumatic and unresolved events.
The Long Season is a story about looking forward, about leaving behind the unresolved issues of the past and living life with what you have and what you can build from there.
The characters are amazing: a taxi driver obsessed with uncovering every detail of a crime that happened 20 years ago; another in a failed marriage whose life hasn't lived up to expectations; and a third who tries to follow the popular saying "he who dances away his troubles" but is still waiting for his "last dance."
Wait, wasn't it a thriller? And the mystery to be solved, so tightly tied together by two timelines, several interesting characters, and a world-building and atmosphere that leaves us wondering "what the hell happened in 1998" that leaves all these people, in a sense, broken 20 years later?
In the end, this is the message; it doesn't really matter. There won't be an answer or revelation that will transport you back to that time and allow you to make new decisions and act differently.
Just look ahead, not backward; the season shouldn't be so long.
The Long Season is a story about looking forward, about leaving behind the unresolved issues of the past and living life with what you have and what you can build from there.
The characters are amazing: a taxi driver obsessed with uncovering every detail of a crime that happened 20 years ago; another in a failed marriage whose life hasn't lived up to expectations; and a third who tries to follow the popular saying "he who dances away his troubles" but is still waiting for his "last dance."
Wait, wasn't it a thriller? And the mystery to be solved, so tightly tied together by two timelines, several interesting characters, and a world-building and atmosphere that leaves us wondering "what the hell happened in 1998" that leaves all these people, in a sense, broken 20 years later?
In the end, this is the message; it doesn't really matter. There won't be an answer or revelation that will transport you back to that time and allow you to make new decisions and act differently.
Just look ahead, not backward; the season shouldn't be so long.
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