“Unknown” evaluation: Eric Bana leads the crime thriller from Yosemite Set set sets

“Unamered”, a quasi-policy drama that has its premiere in Netflix on Thursday, is a vacation from most crime shows that does not play in a large city or a cozy village, but in the wilderness of the Yosemite national park. (No matter that the series in British Columbia was shot, which has nothing to excuse when it comes to dramatic landscapes and whose park Rangers is neither threatened by the desire of politicians to sell public areas.)

The mountains and valleys, the rivers and Brooks, occasional deer or bears are just as part of the Mise-en scène as the complicated, but essentially uncomplicated heroes and villains of the series. Since it does not have big topics, it is not as much meat-and-potatoes TV as fish and corn grilled over a campfire. On the prestige scale there is somewhere between “Magnum Pi” and “True Detective”, which is prone to the former.

Created by Mark L. Smith (“American Primeval”) and Elle Smith (“The Marsh King's Daughter”) and with Eric Bana and Sam Neill, anti -Podemen actors who wear American accents, it is a limited series. However, for a while it is the quality of a pilot that characters that can be reused profitably – with a slightly less of the trauma tip from every corner. If the show becomes a fantastic success, the Netflix engineers can of course take a path to bring it alive again. It has happened before.

“Unroigned” begins big. Two climbers make their way from El Capitan, when a woman's body flies over the cliff, hang and hang in her ropes. It still hangs there.

“Here comes f – in Gary Cooper,” grumbles the Ranger Bruce Milch (William Smillie) to New Ranger Naya Vasquez (Lily Santiago), a former policewoman (and single mother, with a threatening ex), who has arrived from Los Angeles. (The horse, says milk, who sees it as a high horse, gives him a better perspective to look down at low rangers.) What are the chances that Vasquez Turner (junior) becomes partner? And in a difficult relationship that develops into a learning curve (“This is not La – things happen here”) and almost … tender?

Turner is also more heroic and more beautiful than any other on the show, a man in the forest with superior tracking skills. He is also a player – a tacit mess that also makes him appear stoic – hardly holds together, too much to drink, to be in a cabin in the woods that are filled with unpacked boxes, not from the non -tense family in the family, who lives him and his marriage, and his marriage, and his marriage, his marriage, no longer in the family. (The dark side of Stoicism.) Comptistic ex-wife Jill (Rosemarie Dewitt, keeps it real), who himself only “so happy I can” and with the likeable boss Paul Souter (Neill), try to keep him clearly.

“You have locked yourself away in this park, Kyle,” says Souter Turner. “It's not healthy.” However, Turner prefers “most animals people – especially my horse”. Nevertheless, he has a few friends: Shane Maguire (Wilson Bethel), a wildlife manager – that means that he shoots things, i.e. rose – also lives in the forest, but without the cabin is the toxic; Mato Begay (Trevor Carroll), a local police officer, the non -toxic. And he sleeps with a concierge in the local beautiful hotel, just so that the element is covered; Otherwise it is irrelevant.

If the dialogue often has the taste of pulling out a side and not getting out of one character, it does the job, and if the characters are essentially static, people do not change overnight and the consistency is a characteristic of the detective fiction. The story remains careful near the gymnast and/or vasquez; There are enough twists and tendrils in the most important overlapping diagrams without running into less related matters. (Keeping the series on six episodes is also a plus and something that needs to be encouraged, manufacturer of streaming series. Your critic will thank you for it.) Nevertheless between the hot and cold cases with your collateral damage. Hippie housestalls made of central casting that “our earth, our country” sang. A mysterious gold tattoo, local glyphs and old mines – there is a particularly tense scene with a tight tunnel and rising water – the show remains busy. Although serious surprises are not emotionally registered at the last minute-maybe a trauma overload-you will not want to answer or want to conclude.

And they will learn a lot about vultures and their eating habits – not about what they may think.