Oh, dear.
This attempt by Channel 5 to create a drama falls flat on its face. Some negative reviewers gave up after the first two episodes, but I pressed on purely out of a desire to see if it could get any worse - and of course, it could and it did.
The plot is flimsy yet hopelessly convoluted.
The script is desperately poor - one character (Sam) spends most of the time moaning or shouting out the same name over and over again - except when he's in a radio studio cursing to phone-in callers (in the real world, his rants would have been cut off after the first f-bomb).
The acting is also ludicrously bad. Sam's hysterical behaviour is too bizarre to take seriously. On the strength of his performance here, Tom Meeten will never appear in front of a camera ever again. Angela's alcoholic descent into self-pity and self-destruction is similarly bonkers since there's little warning of her mental instability until it's required for the plot to take a sudden turn away from the main story. Rebecca, the mouse-like wife suddenly morphs into a cold, sociopathic killer - again, no foreshadowing. And Sally Lindsay sleepwalks through the entire series - literally. That's all she does (though, apparently what she's really doing is investigating a murder).
How anyone saw this fit to be broadcast baffles me. Not one of Channel 5's finest hours, and Sally Lindsay should be ashamed of herself.
This attempt by Channel 5 to create a drama falls flat on its face. Some negative reviewers gave up after the first two episodes, but I pressed on purely out of a desire to see if it could get any worse - and of course, it could and it did.
The plot is flimsy yet hopelessly convoluted.
The script is desperately poor - one character (Sam) spends most of the time moaning or shouting out the same name over and over again - except when he's in a radio studio cursing to phone-in callers (in the real world, his rants would have been cut off after the first f-bomb).
The acting is also ludicrously bad. Sam's hysterical behaviour is too bizarre to take seriously. On the strength of his performance here, Tom Meeten will never appear in front of a camera ever again. Angela's alcoholic descent into self-pity and self-destruction is similarly bonkers since there's little warning of her mental instability until it's required for the plot to take a sudden turn away from the main story. Rebecca, the mouse-like wife suddenly morphs into a cold, sociopathic killer - again, no foreshadowing. And Sally Lindsay sleepwalks through the entire series - literally. That's all she does (though, apparently what she's really doing is investigating a murder).
How anyone saw this fit to be broadcast baffles me. Not one of Channel 5's finest hours, and Sally Lindsay should be ashamed of herself.