When the first season of a buzzy new series brings in more subscribers than the fourth season of a success, what will become of the scripted TV series?
can attest. But two weeks ago I witnessed the most audacious conclusion I've ever watched: at the end of its fifth and final season the creator of the masterful French espionage drama, Eric Rochant, gave filmmaker Jacques Audiard carte blanche to write and direct the last two episodes., Audiard had no previous involvement in, which screens here on SBS on Demand. His two-part finale ignored some characters while delivering bitter vindication for others.
The structure of a season, and even the episode, is recognisable right back to the 1950s, so that the simplest changes are striking. In the first season of Netflix's metaphysical thriller, creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij – more filmmakers defecting to television – made each episode as long as the story required: one ran for 71 minutes, another just 31. The credit sequence played just once in the entire season, 57 minutes into the first episode.
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