Great acting does not a compelling story make.
What a cast to use irresponsibly on such a random splatter.
All I can think is that Wheatley dug out an old project where he thought he could write a pilot for an "Eastenders meets Dallas" soap and it would be called The B... Bursteads.
One impressive point was you did get to know 12 characters in 90 minutes - but then several of the cast you didn't get to know at all, and you were left thinking "So why are they there?".
The Charles Dance character, or at at least her motivation was desperately pointless - as was the former girlfriend of several of the guys, who, by coincidence, was working at the remote house.. well soapy.
The song that the vilified son played and sang for his mother was cringeworthy in the extreme - and the follow on, of his German girlfriend's Liede was bizarre - and then it was midnight - thank god.
Great acting but don't bother. Failed pilot, not taken up.
