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Strike - The JKR TV series

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OnceUponACat · 13/09/2020 11:05

Apologies if it has been discussed before, I could not find it anywhere.

I am enjoying watching it for but I am annoyed and irked too. For someone like Rawling so many years after HP and still so many cliches: the ugly male detective with the clever cute female sidekick who is happy to work for pittance; Robin’s overgroomed doll look; Cormoran being seen as an appealing partner even though drinks himself to a stupor and is clearly not commitment friendly, etc etc.

Is it me or we could do better than that?

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Wandawomble · 13/09/2020 11:27

I’m trying to think how it would look if I hadn’t read the books.
Some of the translation is lost in the tv series, for instance Robin’s internal thoughts. Strike is meant to be good looking but disabled. The girl who plays Robin is attractive but in the book Strike tries never to cross a line with her because he is aware she has a fiancée...
Strike is commitment phobic after a horrible abuse relationship with his long term ex.
Robins look in the series I think is to reflect the life that she has with Matthew, an office job, good money and the aspirations of their future is what she is rejecting, along with other things from her past.

My main criticism of the series is that they could have been longer, at least an extra episode or two, to develop the characters on screen longer, but time and budgets in TV are not HP budget of course. I’d maybe read the first book or listen to it on audio before making too much of a judgement on JK because of the way tv people have interpreted it.
Her writing is as always impeccable.

Redshoeblueshoe · 13/09/2020 11:19

Ha ha ha. Tom Burke ugly ?
You need to go to Specsavers. And if you want to read a thread there's one in Telly Addicts

pinkbalconyrailing · 13/09/2020 11:17

where is it running?

DidoLamenting · 13/09/2020 11:15

To be honest OP I find your "over groomed doll " comment really offensive.

If you can look at the Robin character and think that that says a lot about your judgemental attitude towards women.

DidoLamenting · 13/09/2020 11:13

Oh good grief. Strike portrayed by Tom Burke is absolutely gorgeous.

Robin is not an "over groomed doll" - how on earth do you come to that conclusion? Robin looks like just about any other woman mid to late 20s working in an office.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 13/09/2020 11:08

As is generally the case, the books are a lot better than the TV series.

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