Despite excellent actors and some inspired scenes, the miniseria from a Philipp Meyer novel suffers from the comparison with the production of HBO “American Rust”, broadcast in the spring.
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Some series require or require, a little patience. In these overall offer times, the bet is dared. It is therefore better in these cases being a miniseries – question of brain time available. It is better also to register in a certain tradition of gender, to capture a public in Charentaises to the habits and the predictable tastes (which does not prevent them from being good). It is better to finally put in front of one or two known names, not necessarily stars but actors of a certain standing, to the career a so much demanding.
American Rust brings together these three conditions, which allows him to escape in extremis to the disaster that threatens in view of the first episodes. Patience, so.
Social Polar on deindustrialization, American Rust suffers from the first plans of a disadvantageous comparison with one of the best police agents of the year, Mare of Easttown. HBO production broadcast in the spring, Mare had carried criticism and the public thanks to its fine but implacable representation of a small town of the “Rust Belt” in which an investigator embodied by the “Queen” Kate Winslet investigates the death of a teenager. Adapted from a Philipp Meyer American journalist novel, American Rust also takes foot in this average city of the affected economy, where destiny is often resumed with two options: leave or stay.
Lazy writing
Despite the suspicions of murder weighing on him following an altercation with a policeman, the young Billy (Alex Neustaedter) chose to stay in Buell, a small town of Pennsylvania gangrenée by the drug where he lives with his Mother (Mara Tierney). His friend Isaac, who was with him at the time of the death of the police officer, has chosen to flee to California, leaving behind his father, widower and sick, and his sister, married to a rich New York.
From a laborious exhibition, it appears that the death of the police officer, also corrupt and drugged, is linked to a fentanyl traffic, an opioid, that the leader of the local police, Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), wants at all costs elucidate. As in Mare of Easttown, the more or less stringent links between the members of the community wear in them the elements of resolution of the plot, which does not hold in breath very long.
Isaac’s setback on the road as well as the case of Care of Chief Harris, on the other hand, provide some of the best scenes, and suggest that the series reserves the best for the end. This is not necessarily to compensate for a lazy writing even in its dialogues, nor to forget that decorative costumes, this representation of America is sorely lacking authenticity.
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