Not a bad film, but clearly a Netflix production full of flaws which undermine its outcome. While art direction is good, fitting well the intended Gothic atmosphere, other traits do not. I never felt as if those events were happening, the direction was unable to transmit any emotion, nothing compatible with what one expects from a thriller. It is particularly dismal, considering the good cast assembled. Pace is sluggish and script seems to have lapses of unnecessary insertions which lead to nowhere. To resume, the story of investigation partnership between Augustus Landor and Edgar Allan Poe could have worked quite well, and the general morbid plot is interesting (and so is the ending), but the film was not balanced, deep and consistent enough.
Review of The Pale Blue Eye
