- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: May 15, 2020
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White Lines is unabashedly silly, but there's a serious underpinning that gives it some unexpected grounding.
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I can’t say I think White Lines (in English, and Spanish with English subtitles) is “Golden Age of Streaming TV” material. But I can say it kept me around.
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"White Lines" is all aesthetics, with little underneath. It’s a beach-read that you can watch, and yes, even escape to, if a sporadically amusing romp in Ibiza sounds like a strong antidote for this weekend.
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Its avalanche of ludicrous double-crosses, carnal entanglements and long-buried revelations is matched by performances that are uniformly overcooked, with no scene left wanting for furious outbursts, longing gazes, intense introspection or flashes of violence. ... There is no subtext, only blunt, simplistic text. ... But it’s rarely boring, which in the end seems to be the only real goal of this tawdry, titillating affair.
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The Nineties sections are more interesting, but they come too slowly for us to feel there’s much at stake. White Lines has all the gear, but no idea.
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The good stuff is stretched far too thinly and The plot loses its way around the midway point. Several twists in the home stretch are highly implausible. The revival of a long-dormant drug-smuggling storyline smacks of desperation. Characters undergo personality transplants or sexuality switches. The sudden introduction of a “fight club” subplot is flat-out laughable.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 2 out of 10
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May 16, 2020Engaging writing, directing and acting. Disappointing only in the direction the storyline takes in the end.