A red rag to a herd of buffalo?

As the second half of the second series of La Brea begins, I’ve decided to wipe the slate clean. To try to see the best in this show, to try to focus on the characters, no matter what happens in the shaky plot.

I tried.

We have a dreadful and life threatening buffalo stampede, but it’s ok, the day is saved but it’s not, but then it is. Then we have a dreadful and life threatening new sky crack / sink hole that endangers tens of thousands of lives in the 1980s and will signal not the way home for those in the clearing, but strand them in prehistoric purgatory forever. Or maybe it won’t. Just wait until just after the next ad break, I’m sure it’ll be fine.

‘This important thing will happen when the MacGuffin reaches this percentage’, then ‘This important thing will happen when it reaches this one’ doesn’t as much signal what will happen as much as paint it in mile-high neon letters, and the consequence is that when it arrives, all the wind has been taken out of the sails of the scene climax.

Veronica and Lucas might be the new ‘it’ couple providing the romantic interludes, which is sweet, but Gavin is more suggestible and changeable than a teenager with a fashion trend. Pick a lane, dude.

Verdict: Continuing to try my patience, as well as my attention span. 4/10

Claire Smith