From the squandered promise of Who Is America? to the glacial pacing of McMafia, this year featured plenty of turkeys that failed to take flight
In theory, McMafia had lots going for it. A captive January audience. A topical edge involving dubiously financed Russians in London. James Norton’s glowering charisma. Plenty of viewers bent over backwards to give it a chance. But, dear God, it was dull. The sterility of these lives was probably partly the point, but it didn’t lend itself to empathy. The storytelling was unforgivably sluggish. Watching it crawl towards its resolution was like watching a puddle evaporate. Taking rich, handsome, ruthless gangsters and surgically removing every ounce of their picaresque charisma might be a worthy pursuit, but it’s not much to look at. PH
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