{"id":302076,"date":"2021-07-18T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:30:58","slug":"watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Showtime&#8217;s Dark Comedy &#8216;The End&#8217; Can&#8217;t Find Its Tone: TV Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2583b71f98b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2583b71f98b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Showtimes_Dark_Comedy_%E2%80%98The_End_Cant_Find_Its_Tone_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Showtime&#8217;s Dark Comedy &#8216;The End&#8217; Can&#8217;t Find Its Tone: TV Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/#%E2%80%9CShowtimes_Dark_Comedy_%E2%80%98The_End_Cant_Find_Its_Tone_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Showtime&#8217;s Dark Comedy &#8216;The End&#8217; Can&#8217;t Find Its Tone: TV Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-showtimes-dark-comedy-the-end-cant-find-its-tone-tv-review\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Showtimes_Dark_Comedy_%E2%80%98The_End_Cant_Find_Its_Tone_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Showtime&#8217;s Dark Comedy &#8216;The End&#8217; Can&#8217;t Find Its Tone: TV Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CShowtimes_Dark_Comedy_%E2%80%98The_End_Cant_Find_Its_Tone_TV_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Showtime&#8217;s Dark Comedy &#8216;The End&#8217; Can&#8217;t Find Its Tone: TV Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cYou\u2019re trying to punish me. Surely the Southern Hemisphere is bad enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So says Edie Henley (Harriet Walter) to her daughter Kate (Frances O\u2019Connor) in the early scenes of the drama \u201cThe End.\u201d This dark comedy created by Samantha Strauss comes to Showtime after a 2020 run in Australia; its first episode shows us how and why Edie, a widow, has been brought to Australia from her native England. She has only recently attempted suicide, and her new proximity to her daughter \u2014 as well as that daughter\u2019s work in palliative medicine and adamant opposition to assisted suicide \u2014 would seem to provide grist for good drama.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a bit mixed, though Walter (a recent standout on TV projects from \u201cThe Spanish Princess\u201d to \u201cSuccession\u201d) and O\u2019Connor (credits including \u201cThe Missing) do good work. For a show intended to contemplate the end of life, the desire to expedite it, and the inborn need to make the time between birth and death count, \u201cThe End\u201d lands a bit too often on an uncomfortably jokey tone. Sometimes it generates real and mordant laughs, as when Edie, working on a pro-con list about staying alive, lists \u201ccake batter\u201d as the first reason to go on. More often, the humor \u2014 especially about Edie\u2019s peers in her retirement community \u2014 seems a defense mechanism, a way to push away from the serious things on the show\u2019s mind. And the show\u2019s juggling a lot of them: Kate\u2019s son Oberon (Morgan Davies), who is trans, has himself previously attempted suicide, while Kate\u2019s daughter Persephone (Ingrid Torelli) has her own troubles, ones the show glances at.<\/p>\n<p>Even at 10 episodes\u2019 length, the show seems unsure how best to use its time, not resting long enough on a single storyline to really let it sink in; it often kills time with old-codgers humor that feels a bit dated. Walter\u2019s rage \u2014 pounding drinks, s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ping down and revealing the ravages cancer has left on her body with an anger at her own fallibility \u2014 fuels her scenes. O\u2019Connor, meanwhile, is so tightly wound as to lend her time onscreen a rich and meaty tension that the <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\">script<\/a> doesn\u2019t consistently provide. Though \u201cThe End\u201d has a probing curiosity about all manner of issues \u2014 contemporary medical ethics, queer youth in the 2020s, divorce and widowhood \u2014 it follows through on them less well than it indulges, and dives deep into, the elemental emotions of its two leads. For too much of its running time, \u201cThe End\u201d seems unsure what it most wants to be about and how it wants to balance all it has to say.<br \/>\nWhen Walter and O\u2019Connor are allowed to really go for it, though, there\u2019s a purifying effect: \u201cThe End,\u201d too briefly but enough to recommend the <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>, comes to rich and vivid life.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe End\u201d debuts on Showtime Sunday, July 18 at 8 p.m. ET\/PT.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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