Three Pines

[olivermoss]

Finished season 1

The whole time I watched this I was like 'This is not a remarkable series, but I hope it gets renewed. A solid ongoing mystery series with very distinct characters, this could turn into something really awesome. They optioned 18 books and only used 3-4 of them.'

The 'big reveal' was clearly telegraphed from the start. It was a shocking twist to the characters, but not the audience. We had the tension of knowing who the Big Bad was, and the character not. Very nice, slow burn tension... A lot of things about this show are rare in TV. I was really vibing with it.

And then they pulled a cheap-ass cliffhanger where the main character get shot in the last few minutes. oh no, will he live? Well, he will if it gets renewed! That cliffhanger undercut everything I liked about the show so, so much. It is officially Not Something I'd Recc.

I took a peek at the subreddit and it seems like this was not in the books. Book readers are very confused as to why they pulled that.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

That's a bummer! It was on my "this tentatively seems interesting" list, but hearing they did such a disappointing, cheap cliffhanger definitely doesn't make me want to watch it. That's the sort of thing that definitely makes me question the quality of the writing in general. (Particularly when it was something that hadn't happened in the source material, and... idk, that's just such a cheap attempt at creating tension, particularly in a show that had been doing so well up until that point.)

[olivermoss]

Yeah, it was super weird, especially since they dropped 2-3 episodes at a time so it was like mini-movies rather than waiting or having little cliffhangers.

[mistressofmuses]

That's even weirder! I didn't realize it wasn't dropped all at once. But that's a very frustrating choice for them to end on.