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'The Luminaries': TV Review
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hollywoodreporter.comCritics and audiences alike have grown to distrust TV's lazy reliance on the in medias res opening. You know, the thing where a series or episode starts with an explosive action scene or unexpected character reversal, followed by the title card "48 HOURS EARLIER" and a whole lot of exposition, too often with disappointing returns.
Starz's miniseries adaptation of The Luminaries begins with a doozy of an example: Various people are running through the dark.
Somebody gets shot. In the dark. Somebody else maybe gets shot, but when she touches her wound, instead of blood there's gold dust.
In the dark. It's a murky muddle that some viewers are going to find utterly infuriating, and even as the six episodes unfold, clarity on the nature of the.
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