Silk is an excellently written legal drama that's written by someone with actual experience of law and isn't afraid to pull punches for it's complex and interesting characters. During the normal episodes.
And yet when they get to the finales, for two consecutive series, they completely lose the plot and end up with such incredibly poor writing, it's hard to believe it's from the same person. There's nothing else like*
Well except when the male lead is snorting cocaine in the first episode and it's _never brought up again_
this in the other 10 episodes, where is it coming from?
SPOILERS abound.
It starts with the series 1 finale which has one of the worst cases of Convenient Miscarriage I've ever seen. Convenient Miscarriage is already one of the most horrible tropes there is, if you have a character going through the agony of wondering if they should keep their child, what it might mean for them and the series and your thought is 'well I could just co-opt this incredibly traumatic and horrible event because it makes it easy for me as a writer', slap yourself and go dunk your head in a bucket until the stupid goes away.
But the way it's done here... It's the middle of an important trial, the female lead gets attacked by someone and then runs away distraught. Then we get one shot of her colleagues saying 'She had a miscarriage' and looking a bit sad and then the next thing we see is her rejoining the trial. She looks a bit put out, someone asks if she's all right and then she goes back to work and it's basically never mentioned again. The episode ends with her smiling and looking at the camera.
A miscarriage isn't a frigging nosebleed.
And then the next series finale manges to top that. Martha Costello has been blackmailed into defending one of the most powerful and psychopathic drug lords in the UK. What's she going to do? How can their be a happy solution?
...by getting the leader of organised crime off scott free and exposing the police chief informant within his organisation who'd been undermining his work for years. And then not only are they all happy that they got the drug dealer off on a technicality but they smile and joke about how they're going to enjoy prosecuting the police's informant. WTF?
The Finales: What the Frig Were They Thinking?
Silk is an excellently written
legal drama that's written by someone with actual experience of law and isn't afraid to pull punches for it's complex and interesting characters. During the normal episodes.
And yet when they get to the finales, for two consecutive series, they completely lose the plot and end up with such incredibly poor writing, it's hard to believe it's from the same person. There's nothing else like* this in the other 10 episodes, where is it coming from?
SPOILERS abound.
It starts with the series 1 finale which has one of the worst cases of Convenient Miscarriage I've ever seen. Convenient Miscarriage is already one of the most horrible tropes there is, if you have a character going through the agony of wondering if they should keep their child, what it might mean for them and the series and your thought is 'well I could just co-opt this incredibly traumatic and horrible event because it makes it easy for me as a writer', slap yourself and go dunk your head in a bucket until the stupid goes away.
But the way it's done here... It's the middle of an important trial, the female lead gets attacked by someone and then runs away distraught. Then we get one shot of her colleagues saying 'She had a miscarriage' and looking a bit sad and then the next thing we see is her rejoining the trial. She looks a bit put out, someone asks if she's all right and then she goes back to work and it's basically never mentioned again. The episode ends with her smiling and looking at the camera.
A miscarriage isn't a frigging nosebleed.
And then the next series finale manges to top that. Martha Costello has been blackmailed into defending one of the most powerful and psychopathic drug lords in the UK. What's she going to do? How can their be a happy solution?
...by getting the leader of organised crime off scott free and exposing the police chief informant within his organisation who'd been undermining his work for years. And then not only are they all happy that they got the drug dealer off on a technicality but they smile and joke about how they're going to enjoy prosecuting the police's informant. WTF?