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Short and Sweet: From ‘Adolescence’ to ‘Sirens,’ This Season’s Best New Shows Are Barely Longer Than a Movie
Dramas like “Sirens” and "Adolescence” are able to pack a season's worth of drama into short runtimes and brief episode counts.
As for “Adolescence,” the series is gorgeously acted and gut-wrenchingly realistic, but living in the world of a potentially evil British child for an extended amount of time is too much — especially considering the roaming camera gives the impression of oner, putting the audience right in the face of a grisly murder. “I don’t underwrite or underbake characters, and so finding the space and time to give every one of our terrific actors their due was one of the bigger challenges that any showrunner faces, but certainly in a half-hour format it makes it all the more difficult.” The costumes alone of “Sirens” immediately tell audiences all they need to know about Meghann Fahy’s Devon, decked out in punky outfits and combat boots, kicking down the door of a Lilly Pulitzer fever dream.
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