{"id":174056,"date":"2021-02-09T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/clarice-needs-to-go-dark-or-go-home\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:16:17","slug":"clarice-needs-to-go-dark-or-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/clarice-needs-to-go-dark-or-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Clarice&#8217; Needs to Go Dark or Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Clarice&#8217; Needs to Go Dark or Go Home<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Up Next<\/strong>, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews a new take on The Silence of The Lambs: CBS\u2019 Clarice.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The CBS crime <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <strong><em>Clarice<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>has some big shoes to fill. Created by <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong> and <strong>Jenny Lumet<\/strong> (<em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>), it\u2019s the latest screen adaptation of <strong>Thomas Harris<\/strong>\u2019 popular book series involving genius cannibal killer Hannibal Lecter.<\/p>\n<p>Except for this time, there\u2019s no Lecter. The character brought to life by multiple actors in film adaptations and then on the small screen in Bryan Fuller\u2019s baroque vision <em>Hannibal<\/em>, is little more than a shadow in this series. Instead, the latest iteration positions a young Agent Clarice Starling (<strong>Rebecca Breeds<\/strong>) front and center. All the while, due to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/clarice-silence-of-the-lambs-interview\/?amp=true\">a strange behind-the-scenes legal situation<\/a>, there is never a mention of the infamous killer\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Without a clear central antagonist, <em>Clarice<\/em> runs the risk of fading into the backdrop of gray-toned, police-and-military <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>d procedurals that tend to make up the CBS prime-time drama lineup. If considered as a standalone series, the three episodes that were available for screening at the time of publication are intriguing enough, building up the protagonist as a strong-willed, folksy hero-type.<\/p>\n<p>Breeds is striking as the central character, and the series\u2019 visuals are occasionally striking as well, even as <em>Clarice<\/em> quickly leans towards the case-of-the-week structure. Unfortunately, though, <em>Clarice<\/em> doesn\u2019t ask us to consider it as a standalone series. Instead, it relies im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely on viewers\u2019 familiarity with the source material, which unwisely opens up the door to inter-textual comparison.<\/p>\n<p><em>Clarice<\/em> takes place in 1993, with the traumatized agent returning to duty for the first time after the Buffalo Bill case of <em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>. She\u2019s working with the FBI\u2019s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program as a behavioral scientist, though she\u2019s less Will Graham and more <em>Justified<\/em>\u2019s Raylan Givens (sans charm), quick on the draw and haunted by her rough upbringing in Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s not at work, Clarice is in work-required therapy, at home with her roommate and coworker Ardelia (<strong>Devyn A. Tyler<\/strong>, who deserves more screen-time), or dodging the calls of Bill\u2019s sole survivor, Catherine Martin (<strong>Marnee Carpenter<\/strong>). It seems it\u2019s hard to unwind when your work is all around you, and your claim to fame is the one memory you wish you could forget.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the series\u2019 most compelling choice has been to deliberately center the women of Harris\u2019 novels. In the first episode, Clarice reads crime scenes for clues in a decidedly feminine way, noting a victim\u2019s wedding ring and nail polish color before earning side-eyed looks from her team when she describes the way stab wounds \u201cdon\u2019t kiss.\u201d This might sound frustratingly cutesy, but Clarice is stone-cold serious, and she\u2019s right most of the time despite her superiors\u2019 lack of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>She dolls herself up to talk to a narcissistic suspect, emphasizes the names of murdered women in a press conference, and correctly guesses that a victim hid her secret files in a box of sanitary napkins. These nods to a particular female kind of intellect can lay it on thick, though, as when she throws around the word \u201cgaslighting\u201d in a moment that\u2019s supposed to read as empowered but misses its mark by a mile.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to thrills, chills, and even characterization, <em>Clarice<\/em> has plenty of room to grow, but so far, its take on a well-worn psychological horror story is a bit bloodless. The first few episodes are also nowhere near as creatively disgusting as past iterations of the story, offering only glimpses of greyed corpses and Buffalo Bills\u2019 dreaded skin suits. The only \u201chorror\u201d so far comes from the obvious PTSD that stalks both Clarice and the Martin family, and even that is pretty muted.<\/p>\n<p>Clarice\u2019s anxieties manifest in fractured flashbacks and moth-laden nightmares, while Catherine, who was held captive by Bill, starves herself \u2014 he liked bigger girls, remember? \u2014 and refuses to leave her room. Meanwhile, Catherine\u2019s attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> mother, Ruth (<strong>Jayne Atkinson<\/strong>), is publicly crusading against crime, trying to remind lawmakers that violence is personal and not just political.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of politics, the series\u2019 first few episodes present a somewhat muddled ideology. The two best adaptations of Harris\u2019 novels, <em>The Silence of The Lambs<\/em> and <em>Hannibal<\/em>, are both bone-chillingly bleak, riddled with nihilistic villains who often get the last laugh. <em>Clarice<\/em> seems poised for a more traditionally moralistic story, as exemplified by a somewhat out-of-place monologue that Clarice delivers in the pilot, one that involves both book banning and a vaguely libertarian pastor.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough to reconcile the series\u2019 first few episodes \u2014 not to mention CBS\u2019 habit of airing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/most-politically-divisive-tv-shows-2018-12\">shows that draw strong conservative viewership <\/a>\u2014 with source material that revels in humankind\u2019s most dark-hearted desires. Harris\u2019 book series and its past onscreen counterparts have always been, above all else, transgressive. 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