'Beecham House': Episode 3 Recap

Here’s a fact that may surprise you: With this episode, we’re now officially halfway through Beecham House Doesn’t it...feel like we should be further along in this story? Or, at least, really even know what the story the show’s trying to tell is?

Sigh.  Look, I know I’m being hard on this series. But it should be so much better than this, and I’m so very annoyed that it isn’t. And all the things that are wrong with it are such eminently fixable problems. Let us get to know these characters in a real way. Give them three-dimensional personalities and show us the reasons why they behave the way they do. Stop making every other person into a caricature – the conniving Frenchman, the broody hero, the racist white lady, the mysterious and beautiful foreigner – and thinking that’s the same thing as giving them an actual story.

Anyway, despite the fact that we’ve all collectively sat through three entire episodes, I can’t tell you much of anything at all about these people or what they want or why they want it. A dude gets murdered this week and I had to Google who the character even was. (Did you know his name was Gopal? Surprise!) At least I got to see Gregory Fitoussi shirtless, even if I think his character is now probably a murderer? I mean, I guess we take our joy where we can find it in these trying times.