understanding minorities
So far I have seen the first two episodes of 'Hit & Miss', Sky's latest drama about a transgendered assassin and her life in Belfast.
With two episodes in the bag initial reviews seem positive, people praising the Scandinavian camera work (similar vein to 'The Killing', the original version) concise dialogue and very believable characters. Some people want the action to heat up faster, in fact we know more about the story through the trailers that were playing throughout the entirety of April and most of May than the first 2 hours of story, but I'm pleased that the creator is taking a Wire-esque approach to everything. And with that show nothing heated up until episode 4, so if that analogy holds we have another fortnight to go before anything significant happens.
Though in the trailer for episode 3 Mia does seem to crash off the top of a can (shipping container) so the violence could be heating up.
I like this show. So does the US apparently, with 3 networks bidding for it currently.
Many detractors have complained that why can't a transgendered actress play the lead, played by Chloe Sevigny sporting a prosthetic strap on.
I don't have a problem with this. Basically because i equate the current situation of transgendered actors and actresses with that of the South African Springbok rugby team back in the 1995 World Cup. You could have black South African players in the squad, Nelson Mandela was told, but the standard of black South African rugby at the time was so behind that of Afrikaans rugby due to the constraints of apartheid that such a squad would not be competitive.
Roll forward to 2007 and the side that won the championship that year was a lot more balanced as they had 12 years to work on the development of black South African players.
I think that it's the same with transgendered actors and actresses. Give us time, we'll get there. Just not next week.
And so far Sevigny has done a STELLAR job with the role. Playing Mia amazingly well. The confusion, the misunderstanding, the sheer fact that she feels like she doesn't fit into the world around her as well as she'd like, or thinks she should.
To this point it seems easier for Mia to kill somebody (in a variety of ways) than take 7 year old Leonie to her dance class. And the camerawork enables and helps this confusion communicate with the audience without being too obvious.
Though Mia's dress sense is something of a question mark, not to mention her drinking and smoking. Both unusual these days in contemporary drama, especially drama including children.
The show is asking a lot of questions. Which pleases me no end.
And I'm hoping it's drawing the viewers so that it can, at the very least, be a vanguard to future LGBT projects that aren't simply stereotypical TV shows. Cos even if voyeurs are watching to catch a glimpse of Mia's genitals its audience figures regardless.
Which when it comes to TV ratings can only be a good thing.
With two episodes in the bag initial reviews seem positive, people praising the Scandinavian camera work (similar vein to 'The Killing', the original version) concise dialogue and very believable characters. Some people want the action to heat up faster, in fact we know more about the story through the trailers that were playing throughout the entirety of April and most of May than the first 2 hours of story, but I'm pleased that the creator is taking a Wire-esque approach to everything. And with that show nothing heated up until episode 4, so if that analogy holds we have another fortnight to go before anything significant happens.
Though in the trailer for episode 3 Mia does seem to crash off the top of a can (shipping container) so the violence could be heating up.
I like this show. So does the US apparently, with 3 networks bidding for it currently.
Many detractors have complained that why can't a transgendered actress play the lead, played by Chloe Sevigny sporting a prosthetic strap on.
I don't have a problem with this. Basically because i equate the current situation of transgendered actors and actresses with that of the South African Springbok rugby team back in the 1995 World Cup. You could have black South African players in the squad, Nelson Mandela was told, but the standard of black South African rugby at the time was so behind that of Afrikaans rugby due to the constraints of apartheid that such a squad would not be competitive.
Roll forward to 2007 and the side that won the championship that year was a lot more balanced as they had 12 years to work on the development of black South African players.
I think that it's the same with transgendered actors and actresses. Give us time, we'll get there. Just not next week.
And so far Sevigny has done a STELLAR job with the role. Playing Mia amazingly well. The confusion, the misunderstanding, the sheer fact that she feels like she doesn't fit into the world around her as well as she'd like, or thinks she should.
To this point it seems easier for Mia to kill somebody (in a variety of ways) than take 7 year old Leonie to her dance class. And the camerawork enables and helps this confusion communicate with the audience without being too obvious.
Though Mia's dress sense is something of a question mark, not to mention her drinking and smoking. Both unusual these days in contemporary drama, especially drama including children.
The show is asking a lot of questions. Which pleases me no end.
And I'm hoping it's drawing the viewers so that it can, at the very least, be a vanguard to future LGBT projects that aren't simply stereotypical TV shows. Cos even if voyeurs are watching to catch a glimpse of Mia's genitals its audience figures regardless.
Which when it comes to TV ratings can only be a good thing.