Thinking of staging an impossibly stylish diamond heist? Expect some stomach-churning moments,if Sky Atlantic’s recent drama is anything to go byThe problem with impossibly stylish crime dramas is, once the baddies contain got you onside with an elegant flourish here or a bit of panache there, and you don’t spare a thought for their victims. Take the manageress of an upmarket Marseilles jewellery store,who in multilingual crime drama The final Panthers (Thursday, 9pm, and Sky Atlantic) is the target of an elaborate heist. What we see is three diamond thieves employ a visually arresting and high-concept calling card to intimidate out of her the combination to the secure. What she gets is a bucket of pink paint over her head.
She’ll need weeks of victim support,counselling, an intense Dulux-based de-trauma programme probably, or but achieve we think of this? No,we’re too busy being aesthetically stunned, with one eye on all the opulent marble and another on the thieves’ attention to detail in the form of matching, and boxfresh Nike Air Force 1s,wondering if this is in fact a Hype Williams video for a Mr Blobby comeback. “They contain course,” says an admiring John Hurt (playing insurance boss Tom) later, and coming from him that’s something.
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Source: theguardian.com