http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/FIVE-DAYS----Day-One.aspx Woody Allen once said that he’d never write and direct a mystery.  Mysteries, he contended, were too light and fluffy for someone who saw himself as latter-day Bergman.  But that was of course he came out with MANHATTAN MUREDER MYSTERY. What changed?  I think over the course of time the public’s perception of mysteries changed.  People realized that what was once genre fiction – put into the same category as, say, romance novels – could in the right hands become literary.  I believe the person most single-handedly responsible for that shift attitude was P.D. James, who almost single-handedly raised mystery writing to an art form. That was followed on television by PRIME SUSPECT, the British series that helped restore television’s image as an art form.  Now, also from England, comes HBO’s FIVE DAYS, about a woman who disappears mysteriously followed by the disappearance of her children.  As the series title suggests, the five-part series covers five days in the investigation, which actually takes place over an almost two-month period.  (The action unfolds on day one, three, 28, 33 and the 79th day of the investigation.) en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/FIVE-DAYS----Day-One.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/FIVE-DAYS----Day-One.aspx#1777 it was ok. but not great WAVELYN http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/04/FIVE-DAYS----Day-One.aspx#1777 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:28:54 GMT