I firstly I want to open up and say that I have not been a loyal viewer when it comes to The Queen because I somehow lose interest during the show, and that is not because the show boring but because the show does not keep me interested in whatever it is trying to achieve.

The most dreadful thing most series do is adding too much clunky-under nose exposition dialogues… it mostly feels like the producers or director just puts on Acts or scenes without writing the actual story line and then tells the actors to improvise and say something that is funny or provocative so that the audience my talk about it on online.

I recently caught an episode of The Queen and honestly, I felt weird because that episode was weird, and I would like to talk about that specific episode.

The episode was about a female lead investigator who was raped, whilst before the scene of the audio tapes, they had someone go on radio (radio talk show host) who had people saying that “the public will feel sorry for the rapist” after they opened a nationwide manhunt, now I did not know whether if that was done on purpose or it was just poor research but that episode alone was probably the wort episode to ever been given the green light, because how can you say that people will feel sorry for the rapist? And then, they found some audio tapes left behind by the perpetrator and when the station commander played those tapes they literally gave the rapist a backstory for the viewer to understand why the rapist rapes… they literally made rape seem like it does not happen in real life, they made it something fictitious.

My main concern is that they have managed to turn their “rapist” as a “psycho” and I did not know or understand why they thought that that specific character requires psychiatric analysis to justify their behavior. The Queen producers did not do any research, they did not check stats, they did not do any consultations however, the only thing that they got right was how useless the SAPS are, and the fact they did not even hide behind “sting operations” to best suggest that the SAPS is still useless and drags its feet when it comes to certain crimes.

Dragging Dialogues ruin a build up

Most Shows (series) on TV have dragging dialogues, and it is bad because all these actors do is talk and talk and talk and talk and talk, and the sad part is that most of these actors have to appear as themselves on screen. What do I mean by that? If you were to put them in a costume and cover them up, would they still be seen as “the actor who starred as and so?!” instead all they do is rely on exposition and talking and claim it to be “acting”. Yes, dialogues are good but what is the point if the actor has no motive, no goal, no drive, no state of urgency no point to reach… I can compare this to The River, that show was good at some point, it always pushed its actors to be active and do things, but lately they have also resorted to exposition, because I’m assuming now that the executive producers have ran out of typical things to throw our main antagonist with… the moment the main villain becomes a person who talks too much and does not do things physically, they lose all credibility.

The Queen needs lead female actors to anchor their plot

I initially assumed that The Queen was about ‘Queen Pins’ who were taking ‘King Pins’ out of the game in the underground world of drug dealers and illegal activities, however that was not the case, I honestly do not even know what it is about anymore because it has dragged a lot of storylines that do not even tie together at the end. Instead they keep introducing too many actors with random storylines that have nothing to do with the initial plot.

The Queen needs to restructure and focus more on writing and research, because so far, it is just a show that advertises how weak its research department is and how they are lazily writing their scripts.