This episode was horribly written.
First of all, the writers have spent 9 episodes making us HATE Claudia. And now, they forced us to watch scene after infuriating scene of her sulking and crying and hugging her son. WE DON'T CARE !!!! Claudia is the one who stabbed ALL of her friends in the back. This is a woman who made love to the Devil in this series. I had to fast-forward through all of her repulsive scenes. They were nothing but sludge in this script.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the writers reached for the number one crime drama cliche: "the incompetent cops", attempting to sell us on the notion that Claudia and Alexander got away by doing a switchover at the filling station.
FACT: The police knew those two felons were fleeing the country. Under international law, all aircraft MUST submit a flight plan before taking off. Therefore, the police would have contacted the airport to find out which flights were scheduled to leave the country within the hour and locked down those avenues of escape. In real life the police would have busted that private jet before it ever taxied down the runway.
And that scene with Bimse and Nicky was just PATHETIC. What? We're supposed to think highly of those greedy knuckleheads because they're loyal friends???? You've GOT to be kidding.
And I also fast-forwarded through the Mads and wife in the hospital scene. More footage of moral cretins I didn't care about.
Was I surprised when the case fell apart? No. Anyone with brains could see that coming a mile away. What DID surprise me was Alf taking the blame for Mads. That was reminiscent of the famous, "No I AM Spartacus" scene in the old Kirk Douglas movie.
When P got on the phone, we knew Alexander was done for.
So, here's the thing . . . The major plot points in this episode were OK. But the way the story progressed to each of those outcomes WAS LUDICROUS.
Bedrag Season 1 exhibited an all too common crime story paradigm. Writers are great at starting a story. Fairly good at adding some plausible twists. But more often than not, they're HORRIBLE at ending a series efficiently and thoroughly.
This ending could have been SO MUCH better . . . But it wasn't.
First of all, the writers have spent 9 episodes making us HATE Claudia. And now, they forced us to watch scene after infuriating scene of her sulking and crying and hugging her son. WE DON'T CARE !!!! Claudia is the one who stabbed ALL of her friends in the back. This is a woman who made love to the Devil in this series. I had to fast-forward through all of her repulsive scenes. They were nothing but sludge in this script.
As if that wasn't bad enough, the writers reached for the number one crime drama cliche: "the incompetent cops", attempting to sell us on the notion that Claudia and Alexander got away by doing a switchover at the filling station.
FACT: The police knew those two felons were fleeing the country. Under international law, all aircraft MUST submit a flight plan before taking off. Therefore, the police would have contacted the airport to find out which flights were scheduled to leave the country within the hour and locked down those avenues of escape. In real life the police would have busted that private jet before it ever taxied down the runway.
And that scene with Bimse and Nicky was just PATHETIC. What? We're supposed to think highly of those greedy knuckleheads because they're loyal friends???? You've GOT to be kidding.
And I also fast-forwarded through the Mads and wife in the hospital scene. More footage of moral cretins I didn't care about.
Was I surprised when the case fell apart? No. Anyone with brains could see that coming a mile away. What DID surprise me was Alf taking the blame for Mads. That was reminiscent of the famous, "No I AM Spartacus" scene in the old Kirk Douglas movie.
When P got on the phone, we knew Alexander was done for.
So, here's the thing . . . The major plot points in this episode were OK. But the way the story progressed to each of those outcomes WAS LUDICROUS.
Bedrag Season 1 exhibited an all too common crime story paradigm. Writers are great at starting a story. Fairly good at adding some plausible twists. But more often than not, they're HORRIBLE at ending a series efficiently and thoroughly.
This ending could have been SO MUCH better . . . But it wasn't.
