Mad Dogs - More Madness Needed!

I like Mad Dogs, it's well acted and you can, kind of, root for the characters. But for the second series in a row the last episode has fallen flat and for me, it's all about pace. For the type of show it is, the whole thing can fall into a stupor far too easily.

Just look at Breaking Bad, well not that you can because no UK channel has the intelligence to pick it up, that has all the quality acting and the tight situations of Mad Dogs but the pace is relentless. Where our hapless heroes in Mad Dogs either sit around and moan, or go back and forth on fools errands, in Breaking bad there is moaning and fools errands, but they are woven into the plot, so you are on the edge of your seat while it's happening, not thinking 'Mad Dogs is getting on my nerves'.

But, let's face it, Mad Dogs is not alone in the sluggish pace department. Two out of three of the last Sherlock series were arse numbingly dull. The finale was saved by Andrew Scott's excellent Moriarty and certainly not Martin Freeman's Doctor Watson. You get the feeling his upcoming Bilbo Baggins will be eerily similar to Tim from The Office, and Doctor Watson. Sorry, I've wandered. Sherlock runs a full ninety minutes, tell me you didn't think that Hound of the Baskervilles one was half an hour too long.

 

Anyway, back to Mad Dogs, I'll certainly be back for the third series, lets just hope they can pick up the pace a little.

 

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