Nowhere is there a better example than Netflix’s Seven Seconds, a new bleak-as-heck crime story set in wintry New Jersey. On the other, it determines everything - its color palette, its costumes, its rhythms, its tone. On the one hand, the temperature of a show means nothing about its overall content, be it crime drama or lighthearted experimental sitcom. In British crime dramas, it is always very cold - think of the bitter despair of Happy Valley. In Girls, for instance, it was always hot, which meant that everyone’s hormones were on high alert, whirling under the pressure of a Brooklyn summer. Of the many metrics you can apply to a television show - quality, length, number of jokes, volume of tears shed, presence or lack of Sarah Paulson - one that often goes unremarked upon is the temperature.
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