Kjartan Thor Thordarson
Breaking Bad This series is the filmmaker’s dream on so many levels. I felt it was so good that the general public would not understand it or appreciate it. It was art, like David Lynch’s type of filmmaking, giving you clues throughout about what’s coming, making you think, colour-matching characters – stuff you would not dare do if you were making a commercial series. It was very cleverly done indeed. The writing and character creation is simply superb. My all-time favourite. Twin Peaks David Lynch made me fall in love with the format of television drama. This series prevented me going out on Friday nights to party as a teenager – nothing else was planned while Twin Peaks was on. The episodes directed by Lynch were magnificent television and they broke out of the format, with some episodes being double-length mini-movies. Characters are the key here – they were bigger than the story. Fargo ‘Bravo’ is what comes to mind when I think about Fargo. Who would have thought you could copy the Coen Brothers and do it so well? This is simply a superbly well-made, full-circle drama series. I liked everything: all the details, all the differences from the borrowed material, casting, acting, directing and the writing – just outstanding. 24 Something changed in television drama when 24 hit the small screen. For me it was the birth of binge-watching. I simply could not watch this series on regular linear television, I had to have the DVDs to see … Continue reading Kjartan Thor Thordarson
