Marcella

So, bored one night recently and against my better judgement, as I've had enough of crime dramas for the next fifty lifetimes, I tried Marcella, a new Netflix series whose description sounded woefully predictable. I was pleasantly surprised at how well done it was. It kept me thoroughly engaged throughout, which is hard to do nowadays as I tend to get bored quickly with whatever I'm watching and instead go play a video game. As for Anna Friel, who played the lead, I was only familiar with her in the vaguest sense. She's very good, but her face full of cosmetic surgery should be a cautionary tale to the rest. The woman was only in her late thirties when the series was made a year or two ago, but had clearly already had a facelift, lip job, etc., as I suppose is the Hollywood norm. At certain moments, when she smiles or makes other expressions, the extensive alteration really becomes apparent and looks freakish and weird (to me.) I know that women in their early twenties now, entertainers and models especially, are already going in for surgery, in our insane modern culture, but honestly, Anna Friel is an attractive woman and I'd have preferred to see a normal looking woman in her late thirties. A few lines on the face never hurt anybody and she needn't have worried. I'm just nitpicking, it has nothing to do with the series, which I do recommend.

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Marcella