After 3 episodes it's apparent Ragdoll is just going to get wackier and wackier and I'm on the fence if I enjoy that or not. The tonal shift from comedy and intense abyss blackness is almost as whiplashy as getting hit by a truck or set on fire: some ways characters get killed by the mysterious person on the phone that Rose, the main character, calls when he wants a serial arsonist, Mark Hooper, taken out. Unfortunately the killer leaves a Ragdoll of six people sewn together and pointing directly at Rose's apartment, what a beginning! Confused yet? The show's kinetic energy rarely lets up, which is fun but can be hard to follow at times.
However, what seemed like a serious Drama/Thriller watches more like an episode of Psych or Castle, then wants to be The Bridge or Se7en. It's a lot to take in, but I can do. What's taken me completely out however are the ridiculous ways the killer kills his/her victims.
They know when a PM is in the exact room where flowers are delivered and know the PM will have a smoke when there's no smoking allowed. This then triggers an accelerant from the flowers to be lit from the fire, causing the PM to burst into flames. Okay fine... The killer also knows exactly how Hooper's brother will be caught, found with planted drugs so his lawyer can slash his throat, the lawyer being blackmailed prior. Fine, that's still plausible.
This 3rd victim? No way! They know this Prison escort driver will go to work that day, that he'll take some kind of pill, which has been replaced with LSD or MDMA, will be coherent enough to drive to a planted bomb under a bridge, hit a fire hydrant making visibility tough, know a prisoner from said truck be able to fight off another guard and black police woman to somehow know American police woman will leave drugged truck driver alone to find his daughter's missing backpack with... yep, you guessed it, a poisonous snake (ala Kill Bill) inside! And no, none of that is made up. I'm sure there's more insane examples of a killer getting everything right and always being right, I just couldn't think of any.
The only question is how the hell do you top that? Maybe the show should have been called Nostradamus instead?
However, what seemed like a serious Drama/Thriller watches more like an episode of Psych or Castle, then wants to be The Bridge or Se7en. It's a lot to take in, but I can do. What's taken me completely out however are the ridiculous ways the killer kills his/her victims.
They know when a PM is in the exact room where flowers are delivered and know the PM will have a smoke when there's no smoking allowed. This then triggers an accelerant from the flowers to be lit from the fire, causing the PM to burst into flames. Okay fine... The killer also knows exactly how Hooper's brother will be caught, found with planted drugs so his lawyer can slash his throat, the lawyer being blackmailed prior. Fine, that's still plausible.
This 3rd victim? No way! They know this Prison escort driver will go to work that day, that he'll take some kind of pill, which has been replaced with LSD or MDMA, will be coherent enough to drive to a planted bomb under a bridge, hit a fire hydrant making visibility tough, know a prisoner from said truck be able to fight off another guard and black police woman to somehow know American police woman will leave drugged truck driver alone to find his daughter's missing backpack with... yep, you guessed it, a poisonous snake (ala Kill Bill) inside! And no, none of that is made up. I'm sure there's more insane examples of a killer getting everything right and always being right, I just couldn't think of any.
The only question is how the hell do you top that? Maybe the show should have been called Nostradamus instead?