(Sorry, Victoria's Season 2 ratings.) Tom Burke ( War & Peace) makes a great disheveled and slightly-useless-as-a-human detective in the title role of Cormoran Strike. It's hilariously delightful, decently written, and well acted. Strike on Cinemax, where it will struggle to find the kind of quiet but loyal reception it deserves from an anglophile audience. There's only one problem: HBO doesn't air anything like PBS Masterpiece mysteries. So HBO hopped in and secured the rights to the BBC's mini-series made up of all three Strike novels. HBO and the BBC already worked together in bringing Rowling's other attempt at normality, The Casual Vacancy, to the small screen. Rowling's name was now irrevocably attached. But before it reached readers' hands, the press had already leaked the secret. Strike's seven-week run, was Galbraith's "debut" novel in 2013. The Cuckoo's Calling, which makes up the first three episodes of C.B. Clearly, enough were: "Galbraith" received a collection of rejections that a post-Potter "Rowling" never would. So she sent out the first Cormoran Strike mystery manuscript under the pen name Galbraith, in hopes publishers would be fooled. There was one problem: Rowling wanted to work, but her name was getting in the way. By the time the final novel arrived in stores in 2007, Rowling never had to work again. The series, aimed towards tween and then teen crowd was a hit from the word go, kicking off an entire YA craze that still hasn't abated two decades later. Rowling’s story is as Cinderella level as it is well known: a single mum living on the dole, she wrote the first Harry Potter book in coffee shops.
Strike is airing on its secondary tier pay cable channel, Cinemax.
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He’s the pen name of Joanne Rowling, the billionaire with a household name recognized the world over, which is why HBO sunk money into the series and the rights to air it over here. Strike is a perfectly delightful mini-series coming all three of the existing books.Įxcept these aren’t normal circumstances.
Less star-studded, yet more celebrity-obsessed than Unforgotten, not as concerned with morality as Granchester, and far more straightforward in its twists than Endeavour, C.B. Written by middling range author Robert Galbraith, who has an oddly large twitter following, the show would slot nicely into the neighborhood. Strike would be premiering on PBS’ Masterpiece this weekend, the long-running home for BBC and ITV drama, romances, and mysteries, which provides these series with an already-built-in fan base. It's a BBC import which aired opposite Victoria last fall, under the slightly shorter title, Strike. Rowling brings a new voice to British mysteries and a little bit of Harry Potter magic. Frustratingly, then, it takes too many episodes for them to share substantial screen time with one another.With C.B.
Saddled with a plainly terrible boyfriend (Kerr Logan), Robin isn’t a great character per se - she’s too much of Cormoran’s Girl Friday for that - but her shifting relationship with her temp boss turned mentor is one of the series’ few bright spots, as is the respectfully flirty chemistry between the two leads. But the pang of “not enough” was most keen when it came to the scenes between Burke and his co-star Holliday Grainger, who faultlessly embodies the earnest, thrill-seeking Robin. Strike was “not enough”: not enough plot, not enough characterization, not enough suspense, not enough of its own DNA. The phrase that recurred in my mind as I watched C.B.
Neither the investigators nor the suspects sustain interest, which makes the final installment, when Cormoran himself is accused of murder, especially uncompelling. But the cases feel so stretched out and the pacing so vexingly bovine - as if the writers and directors were told to fill a set number of minutes - that the mysteries repel emotional investment. At least the first two take place within the high-fashion glitterati and the back-stabbing literati of London, respectively - settings that the production designers practically eat up. It doesn’t help that the show’s trio of somewhat lurid whodunits are stubbornly uninvolving.
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