‘Spiral: From The Book of Saw’: An Intricately Bad Soap-Copera Spin-Off About Police Accountability [Review]
Somewhere between 2004’s “Saw” and 2017’s “Jigsaw,” the torture in the “Saw” franchise became a punchline. Their mechanics stopped working—the elaborate devices by Jigsaw and his disciples were no longer believable acts of crafty Boogey-people but screenwriters desperately inventing new ways to die.