‘The Luminaries’ Review: There Is a Fault in Our Stars

The opening scene of Starz’s “The Luminaries” takes place in the middle of the night in 1866, outside a shack — or something — on New Zealand’s South Island.

Someone gets shot, maybe, and there’s some sort of glitter or sparkly stuff that spurts from a voluminous pink dress and, well, it’s probably gold because this tale unfolds during the Otago Gold Rush.

Maybe?Like the entire plot of “The Luminaries,” everything in this opening scene is overstuffed and hard to discern.

Take a moment and adjust the settings on your screen per the recommendation of my colleague Chris O’Falt, who solved this problem two years back when we were all peering through the chiaroscuro of “Game of Thrones.”Airing on Starz almost a year after it debuted on Tvnz 1 and BBC One, “The Luminaries” comes with a promising pedigree.

Eleanor Catton adapted own her 2013 Man Booker Prize-winning novel.

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