Horus Ex Machina Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I had my doubts about this ho early on in the series but it grabbed me midway through. I'll have more in-depth thoughts later but my "2wsx" keys aren't working which makes typing evil... Great show, ultimately binged it in a day after more or less paying half attention to the first half of the season and being entranced by the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Just finished it up last night. Agree that it starts a bit slow, but ends up really gripping you. Both Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek were perfect in their roles, but it was Ben Mendelsohn as Danny who really fucking owned it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horus Ex Machina Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Just finished it up last night. Agree that it starts a bit slow, but ends up really gripping you. Both Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek were perfect in their roles, but it was Ben Mendelsohn as Danny who really fucking owned it. Agreed about Sissy Spacek and Mendelsohn but I would also include Kyle Chandler who absolutely crushed it with the best interplay between two male leads that I have seen in a long time. It was at times almost evocative of Heat with DeNiro and Pacino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Bloodline's cast was completely stellar. I binged it in three days, finishing late Sunday. An amiga asked why I liked Bloodline enough to watch it that fast all the way through, and this is how I answered her (just me, let me haste to add): The series is located in the Florida Keys, which is pleasing particularly since winter returned on us last week. It's a family secrets drama, produced by the team that did Damages. I often felt baffled, but in the right way for such a show. If one enjoys melodramas such as the English Jacobin era Revenger’s Tragedy, or Charles Burnett’s classic evil trickster in the house,To Sleep With Anger, plot reversals, twists and turns, one will like this. In the meantime an opening title song with memorable lyrics, like Damages had. And a lot of Spanish Florida that includes loving families, and hispanics speaking Spanish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Agreed about Sissy Spacek and Mendelsohn but I would also include Kyle Chandler who absolutely crushed it with the best interplay between two male leads that I have seen in a long time. It was at times almost evocative of Heat with DeNiro and Pacino. Like Zorral said I think the entire cast did a stellar job, but I think a few of them were better at really bringing their characters to life. For me I felt that Chandler benefited more than a little from the fact that he was cast to play directly opposite Mendelsohn's Danny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 This show was awesome. Didn't quite feel for the last scene as it seemed unnecessary and contrived, but the season as a whole was stellar. Ben Mendelsohn knocked it out of the park and I'm not sure I want to watch a second season without him. Great show and very underrated. Hope all of the Netflix series turn out to be gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ghost- Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I've had this on my list to watch but kept putting it off for some reason. I'll have to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Just finished this tonight. I really liked it, but wish they hadn't 'killed' Danny in episode 1. I get that that was their big hook, but knowing Danny was toast drained a lot of the drama from the closing episodes. Glad that Mendelsohn is returning for season 2. Because, frankly, it wouldn't be much of a show without him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Glad that Mendelsohn is returning for season 2. Because, frankly, it wouldn't be much of a show without him.Wait, what? How're they gonna pull that off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Wait, what? How're they gonna pull that off? Flashbacks, I guess. Here's the skinny. "The first season of the Netflix drama ended with John (Kyle Chandler) killing his troublesome brother Danny after a heated argument. Mendelsohn is under contract and expected to be back for the second season, Kessler notes, as Danny's influence doesn't go away." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Flashbacks, I guess. Here's the skinny. "The first season of the Netflix drama ended with John (Kyle Chandler) killing his troublesome brother Danny after a heated argument. Mendelsohn is under contract and expected to be back for the second season, Kessler notes, as Danny's influence doesn't go away."Well I'm glad that he'll be back as he gave one hell of a performance, but it'll be a delicate thing to pull off, and I really hope they don't fuck it up.Speaking of fucking things up, it feels like Netflix did just that with the marketing of this show. They did a very good job of creating a lot of buzz around their other big dramas, but Bloodline seems to have gone kind of under the radar. Which is a shame since it's ever bit as good as, if not better than, anything else they've produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Well I'm glad that he'll be back as he gave one hell of a performance, but it'll be a delicate thing to pull off, and I really hope they don't fuck it up.Speaking of fucking things up, it feels like Netflix did just that with the marketing of this show. They did a very good job of creating a lot of buzz around their other big dramas, but Bloodline seems to have gone kind of under the radar. Which is a shame since it's ever bit as good as, if not better than, anything else they've produced.Agree on both counts. I'm glad Mendelsohn is back but he probably won't get as much screentime as I'd like given that they'll most likely be flashback scenes andcneed to be limited in order to feel like a fluid story.Also agree that the show deserves better marketing. Wonder if Netflix is counting on its suggestion algorithm to do the heavy lifting in getting this show out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 I'd never heard of it until I saw this tweet from Chuck Wendig. And yeah, quite possibly the finest work Netflix has ever produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isalie Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Finished it yesterday, and except for the last five min it really was excellent. I'm not interested in the second season at all though. I really hoped that they would contain the series to one season since they really let the conflict between the characters drive the narrative, I fear that in a second season it will turn to all plot. From Carlos having seen them at Danny's place dumping the drugs, to Mom finding out crap, to new son turning up to befriend kids but actually, dundundun, be trouble! It was great though, didn't binge it because it felt like the kind of series where you want to digest what happens before moving on. Simply put, it was intense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how season 2 is going to work out. Season 1 was a very well done, believable family drama, and completely self contained. The more new drama they inject into the story, the less believable it will become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NestorMakhnosLovechild Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing how season 2 is going to work out. Season 1 was a very well done, believable family drama, and completely self contained. The more new drama they inject into the story, the less believable it will become. I agree. I really enjoyed the first season. Absolutely amazing sense of place with the beautiful scenery and some really great performances. But for me... the thing that held it all together was Danny and Mendelsohn's performance, which gradually ramped up the threat and creep level. I loved how the show would play with your expectations, like in the episode where the father had the stroke and fell over in the water. I loved that you got to see everyone react to what happened before you finally, at the very end, got to see not only that Danny's version of what happened to the dad was true, but also that the dad had been particularly cruel to Danny in telling him to leave. It's one of those rare shows that relies on misinformation/miscommunication that doesn't leave you feeling like all of the characters are idiots. When they passed the wrong information to each other - usually deliberately - it makes sense in the context of the story, and doesn't just feel like the plot pulling the characters along. But what's left now that Danny is disposed of and dad is dead? Drama about his son? Eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buff daddy Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Count me in the "loved this season but can't see the second one being anywhere near as good without Danny as a major player/character" camp. It's like if they killed off Glenn Close's character Patti Hughes in the first season of Damages. Why would you deprive your show of the one actor/character who is clearly far and away the most talented/compelling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooog Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Binged on this show in 3 days and also loved it. Stayed up half the night watching one ep after another I just had to know what would happen next :D Mendelsohn is usually one of those character actors playing a peripheral role but he really made this his own. Seen a few other things with him lately like Starred Up (very good) and Black Sea (meh) but he's consistently excellent in everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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