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Partly this is because of the script, which – thanks to some good, understated dialogue – bucks the general mood, ie that this show was not so much written as collaged from odds and ends of other police procedurals. Meanwhile, we also have the sense that the leading cultural activity is – as in The Deer Hunter – exterminating local wildlife, and there’s a conspiracy over a body found in the old mill.Īnd yet, for all of its boilerplate qualities, American Rust doesn’t stink as much as forecast. There are also after-hours brawls in car parks, and more duelling banjos on the soundtrack than John Boorman programmed in Deliverance. Predictably, the police chief, Del Harris, is navigating a doomed romance with the fireball, Grace Poe (played by Maura Tierney, best known as Abby in ER). Hundred per cent cloud cover and a palette of bleached-out browns and greys? Check. A fireball with grim blue-collar job and a horrible ex? Check. A lantern-jawed twentysomething doomed to be stuck in a small town after not taking up a football scholarship? Check. Another cop – an Iraq war veteran – wondering if the antidepressants are neutralising the amphetamines, or vice versa? Check. A depressed police chief in unbecoming plaid (played by Jeff Daniels with all the pep of previous roles removed) unsurprised at human folly and venality? Check. Indeed, the opening episode lurches from cliche to cliche. American Psycho? A rare exception.Ĭould American Rust buck the trend? Not according to the US reviews that come trailing the show like a cloud of stink.
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An American Werewolf in London? Sucked, and was historically inaccurate. Is nobody paying attention to continuity?įor many years now, adding “American” to a title has not only burned my British biscuits, but served as a guarantor of suckery. Between page and shot, the man boobs have gone walkies, and it’s the judge’s beer belly that is obscuring his shoes. It’s a good question, the kind of lugubrious, cod-philosophical rhetoric that bejewels the dramatic wasteland of American Rust (Sky Atlantic). “If my man boobs are blocking the view of my shoes, so what?” Because once you don’t give a shit how you look or what people think, then nothing seems like an indignity.” He Irishes up his coffee with whiskey.
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“F olks say that as we get on, life is a series of indignities,” muses a judge to a police chief in a small American town.