If you are here, then you probably are divided about your views on the Netflix series, ‘Inside Man’. The series is currently trending top 10 on Netflix the moment I am writing this article. From the creator of ‘Sherlock Holmes’, Steven Moffat, it is only natural that people get into this series with high expectations.
It is also natural that expectations sometimes can hurt. Well, this time for some, it did not hurt but “infuriated.” Whilst, there are many who love the series for its uncompromising tone on ‘moral worth‘ and it’s eerie detective-sort-of-theme, many lovers of ‘Holmes’ beg to differ. Read on to know more about why viewers are divided over ‘Inside Man’.
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What’s ‘Inside Man’ About?
The four-part black comedy drama is about Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci), a criminologist on death row in Texas. He, for reasons unexplained, is allowed to run a rudimentary detective agency while awaiting execution. That makes Grieff an inside man both in the prison sense, and in the criminal-solving-crimes sense.
Cut-and-shut welded to a different story set in the UK about an Anglican vicar (David Tennant) making decisions so needlessly stupid that you wonder he has the capacity to put his cassock on the right way round. Moffat’s edged wit creates characters that are not the prim archetypes of priest, teacher, or mother, but are instead playfully prickly. They’re a bit too clever to feel real. But they’re better than authentic; they are fascinatingly flawed.
At first, it seems bewildering how this English family’s story might collide with the American wife-killer. But Moffat won’t make audiences wait long to see the slippery slope that his homicidal anti-protagonist says to anyone who will listen. “Everyone’s a murderer…All it takes is a good reason and a bad day.”
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Why Viewers Are Divided Over This Netflix Series?
‘Inside Man‘ is more thought experiment than story. Every ludicrous action taken by its characters is in service of the question: ‘what would make would a good man commit murder?’ Thus we have a good man, David Tennant’s vicar Harry Watling, wedged into a situation he keeps saying is unavoidable. However, it could and should have been avoided at every turn. This is why a lot on the internet are “infuriated” with this series and feel like, “It’s unrealistic at this point.”
I just want everyone in this series to communicate better wtf! I can’t stand watching things that intentionally leave out basic communication to solve problems. It’s every scene! It’s unrealistic at this point. I’m on episode 3 and I’m getting irritated but still 👀. #InsideMan
— Elle Boogie (@LisasShowTalk) November 1, 2022
Harry and his wife Mary (Lyndsey Marshal) aren’t trapped by fate or by circumstance, but by baffling choices they make in service of a hypothesis. Janice isn’t much better, but at least some of the tactics she uses when she’s held captive give us an idea how clever she really is. That alone is not going to run the show. Even at times, I just wanted everyone not to crzily think stuff and just go by the book.
Can someone pls explain to me why the Vikar in Inside Man didn’t just say to Janice in the first place that they’ll go to the police together and he shares whom the stick belongs to in confidence to just safe everyone except Edgar who deserves punishement bc child porn //
— beckbeck (@theonlybeckbeck) October 26, 2022
With today’s technology it could have been easy for people to find out that the pen drive was in fact not Grief’s or his son’s. If Janice is that clever, she would have figured this out. This willing openness in the story definitely made everyone want to shout ‘Shut up’ at every time the characters in Grief’s household hypothesize a nasty situation. “Ridiculous” and definitely not “clever.”
You’re telling me Janice is clever but didn’t put together that the flash drive wasn’t Ben’s? This whole story line is a bit ridiculous isn’t it? #InsideMan
— La Jefa (@jdova21) November 3, 2022
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