Drama
Doctor Who
The good Doctor’s been flitting around time, space and the BBC since 1963. Now he’s also a fixture in the US, toting his curiously British brand of sci-fi in his highly mobile TARDIS. Just how safe is this contraption?
Time capsules are pretty neat.
They offer glimpses into the past. What people wore, how they talked, what they did, even what they were thinking—these can all be captured in a box buried underground to be unearthed someday.
And that’s exactly what Detective James Cormack is counting on.
See, he’s a cold case investigator. So a time capsule, to him, isn’t just a glimpse into days of yore. It’s a treasure chest of knowledge, letting him know exactly what the citizens of Ashford, Australia, were thinking and doing when Isabel Baker was murdered there 25 years ago.
Centered on a brutal murder of a teenage girl, Black Snow isn’t exactly a light or happy tale. Flashbacks show teenagers having sex, smoking marijuana, lying to their parents and more.
Language is foul in the past and present, with multiple uses of the f-word. Detective Cormack is addicted to pain. He even pays a man to beat the tar out of him in an alley. And it seems everyone in Ashford has something to hide as Cormack tries to solve Isabel’s murder.
So just as the former students of Ashford predicted what they thought the year 2019 would hold, I’ll make a prediction of my own: Black Snow won’t be a series you can share with the own family. In fact, better to just bury it altogether.
When a time capsule reveals evidence in a cold-case murder, Detective James Cormack travels to the small town of Ashford to solve the crime.
A girl flees an unseen assailant and tries to phone for help. Years later, we hear the grisly details of her murder, which states she suffered blunt force trauma to the head and tried to fight back (evidenced by the blood on her hands that wasn’t hers). A time capsule reveals that she was scared for her life and suspected someone close to her wanted to harm her.
A man pays someone to beat him up in an alley. When his boss questions the cuts and bruises later, he makes a sexual joke about it. There are other crude jokes about sex and male genitals.
A teenage couple has sex (we don’t see anything critical, but the girl is in her bra and there’s lots of movements and close-ups of exposed skin). Later, the teen girl walks out in nothing but her boyfriend’s shirt, while he is shirtless. Several teens mock a classmate they suspect is gay, and years later, this is revealed to be true. (One teen boy repeatedly calls him “tampon.”) A boy kisses his girlfriend on the cheek.
Teenagers smoke marijuana. A few scenes take place in bars, and characters drink alcohol. There are a few ads for alcohol and cigarettes. A woman takes a prescription medication. Teens mockingly suggest a teacher is an alcoholic.
Two girls skip class to purchase a van for a road trip. They’re caught by a teacher (who is the mother of one of the girls) and are given detention. Teenagers repeatedly lie to their parents. A woman compulsively snaps a rubber band on her wrist. A man crudely downplays a teen girl’s fears, stating she must have been menstruating.
We hear the f-word eight times and the s-word five times. There are also uses of “d–k” and “h—,” as well as the British expletives “bloody” and “a-se.” Christ’s name is abused once.
A family prays in a church. We learn that Isabel’s dad is a pastor with strict rules for his family. (Isabel breaks many of these rules in rebellion.) People say “God bless” to each other in greeting.
Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.
The good Doctor’s been flitting around time, space and the BBC since 1963. Now he’s also a fixture in the US, toting his curiously British brand of sci-fi in his highly mobile TARDIS. Just how safe is this contraption?
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