This is made even worse when a new face arrives at the station in episode 9 and immediately finds clues that the others have missed for the previous 6+ hours. By contrast Ada is overly emotional to a fault her emotions cloud her judgment and consequently blind her detective work. The archetypal characters have little depth and Trela is a bland and forgettable protagonist with little charisma. In a way, Signs (like Cursed earlier this month) is a textbook example of how not to write a story. I won’t spoil anything here but while the finale does reveal who the killer is, it only gives fragments to the whole story and it’s still unknown how everything slots together. Expect lots of teen melodrama (which eventually becomes entangled with the main narrative) and even a few last-minute twists to drag out the idea of a second season. Even worse, the show throws in an utterly bizarre, left-field subplot around the Nazis and it feels completely off-kilter to the tone running through the rest of the series.Īlong the way, there’s plenty of drama to pad out the run-time. This poses a whole set of problems in and of itself given us – the viewers – have little to work with and little reason to become emotionally engaged. With no clues to go on and little in the way of leads for much of the run-time, Signs stumbles and mumbles through its 8 episodes trying to find some signs (no pun intended) to lead toward who the killer is. Alongside the overly emotional Ada, the duo try to work together and solve the crime. Aiming to quell any doubts over who the killer is, no-nonsense detective Trela arrives to oversee the case. This sets up the basic premise to work with and on paper, there’s certainly some promise.īetween the cultists living with shady Jonasz and a shady company looking to push through construction work at the local Quarry, there’s plenty of motive and suspects to point fingers at. We then skip forward 10 years to find another murder has taken place, with suspicious identical bullet wounds to Laura.įrom here it seems likely that the two cases are linked together and the killer (or copycat killer) is on the prowl again. After a phone call to her Mum, she turns around and receives two bullets to the chest for her trouble.
The main story here begins in typical murder mystery fashion and introduces our first victim, Laura. What we’re left with is a show that stretches out a five-episode concept to a bloated ten episode run…and then leaves things hanging with a cliffhanger ending during the finale. It’s a show that ticks all the archetypal tropes for this genre but does so in such a lackadaisical way that it forgets to engage its audience along the way. Overlong, bloated and lethargically written, Signs (Znaki) is a miserable murder mystery in desperate need of some excitement.
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