Review of Briarpatch

Briarpatch (2019–2020)
5/10
The Big Bore-owski
3 April 2020
I have been hearing about this show for over a year as the creator has a podcast. I was looking forward to it. It has style...I will give the show that but there are NO likable characters and the plot is incoherent. The "hero" of the piece really does nothing. She just visits people and occasionally they just end up dead. I could care less about any of the characters other than the occasional zoo animal showing up. I have now watched 7 episodes and will continue to do so because I enjoy listening to Andy on his podcast but I am totally not engaged with the plot. The political plot is just uninteresting, incomprehensible and the characters are cliche..

Maybe they could have done this is 5/6 episodes with fewer characters and fewer static shots of inanimate objects. Trying to be "cool" doesn't always produce a great show. I read the novel over 20 years/maybe 30 years ago and remember it being a crisp read.

Andy...I can't see this being renewed.
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