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Shasha
Stuck in....
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Grudges and money
Why do they insist on ruining perfectly good dramas with incomprehensible titles? Here they took it a step further and capitalized all letters! Shouting? An abbreviation? What does it mean? Well, you'll find out sometimes halfway through the drama when it becomes obvious that a number of characters unwittingly helped the murderer. They chipped in and therefore the title!
And the drama is short and so worth the watch. It is reminiscent of many Agatha Christie's novels where the events are limited in time, location and characters: everything here takes place over a couple of weeks in an isolated house and with eight people! One of those is murdered. Who killed him? Every person had a motive, a very personal motive brought on by a grudge. The reasons for those grudges are all different, but they all stem from the awful nature of the murdered person and his wealth.
There are a lot of secrets revealed as the investigation unfolds, the characters show their real faces and there is no redemption even for the victim, who by all evidence brought in on all by himself. The best and the most likeable character was the victim's mistress, flamboyant, direct and naive in a good-natured way.
The red herrings abound: the wife is suspected on and off the most, there is a lot of backstabbing and lying, so much so that it gets a bit draggy but I guess most characters had to go through "suspect" phase at least once! The only one never suspected was the victim's niece, an apparently self-centred social media addict constantly filming herself but very much aware of what's going on behind her indifferent facade.
Finally, the revelation of the murderer is not as important as the reason for the murder, which turned out to be unexpected!
The production value is high: the acting, the costumes, the cinematography - everything is just right! Some people say it should have been shorter, like a movie kind of short. Yes, possible but it was just fine like this as well since we got to see the characters in depth, they were better fleshed out than any movie could have done. And even though they were mostly clichés, they were clichés well-formed!
Good watch!
And the drama is short and so worth the watch. It is reminiscent of many Agatha Christie's novels where the events are limited in time, location and characters: everything here takes place over a couple of weeks in an isolated house and with eight people! One of those is murdered. Who killed him? Every person had a motive, a very personal motive brought on by a grudge. The reasons for those grudges are all different, but they all stem from the awful nature of the murdered person and his wealth.
There are a lot of secrets revealed as the investigation unfolds, the characters show their real faces and there is no redemption even for the victim, who by all evidence brought in on all by himself. The best and the most likeable character was the victim's mistress, flamboyant, direct and naive in a good-natured way.
The red herrings abound: the wife is suspected on and off the most, there is a lot of backstabbing and lying, so much so that it gets a bit draggy but I guess most characters had to go through "suspect" phase at least once! The only one never suspected was the victim's niece, an apparently self-centred social media addict constantly filming herself but very much aware of what's going on behind her indifferent facade.
Finally, the revelation of the murderer is not as important as the reason for the murder, which turned out to be unexpected!
The production value is high: the acting, the costumes, the cinematography - everything is just right! Some people say it should have been shorter, like a movie kind of short. Yes, possible but it was just fine like this as well since we got to see the characters in depth, they were better fleshed out than any movie could have done. And even though they were mostly clichés, they were clichés well-formed!
Good watch!
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