Bloodline: A family drama gets swamped in the telling
Flash-forward is the new flashback. On every episode of Bloodline, we are reminded that the good son John Rayburn (Kyle Chandler) will dispose of the body of the bad son Danny Rayburn (Ben Mendelsohn) on a boat in the Florida Keys. Did John kill Danny? The very first words we hear on the show are: “Sometimes, you know something’s coming. You feel it in the air. In your gut… Something’s going to go terribly wrong.” The opening credit sequence says as much: clear blue skies over a sun-bleached beach giving way to dark clouds, thunder, lashing rain. Accompanied by a cover of a Metallica song. “Please don’t judge us,” says John. “We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing.”
Oh, really? We would never have guessed. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Read my review of Bloodline in The Binge.
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June 15th, 2016 at 15:14
A few paragraphs of your description of the show reminded me of “Brothers & Sisters” with the Calista Flockhart and Sally Field. This is my kind of drama.
It also gave me a jolt when you wrote that Kyle Chandler started out in “Early Edition”. I remember him from an earlier show, “Homefront”, which ran in the early 1990s.