I rarely invest hours of my life in watching series as they seldom deliver anything more than viewing stats for the networks/advertisers.
... but having watched the best TV I have seen in almost 50 years, House of Cards, I thought maybe I was missing out.
Fortitude came along with stunning views of one of my favourite countries, Iceland - If nothing else at least I would enjoy the scenery.
Well after putting up with 5 tedious, dull, uninteresting and pretentious episodes I want a refund of my life.
You know those games where everyone writes a sentence and then the group have to make them into a story ? It usually results in lots of laughter - it seems the people behind Fortitude had the same idea but forgot the laughter.
I have decided to wait until the end of series one and someone writes the plot on the back of cigarette packet, no a stamp. It will mean that I can at least recover a little from the wasted hours watching this nonsense.
Having great scenery, cinematography and actors ( they maybe able to act but you'd never know it from this ) is not enough.
Creating a pool of 1000 strange things just to get the response, "That's strange" is not a substitute for a plot, a narrative and a good twist.
This is TV by checklist:
1) Location - tick 2) Scenery - tick 3) Actors - tick 4) Odd things - tick 5) Story - ?
Someone wrote a review here saying ignore the negative reviews on Fortitude as it might be too clever for them - I expect they are the clever ones.
The line in Fortitude that says "no one can die here" doesn't relate to the viewers.
I'm out. Very poor Sky thought you could do better than this.
... but having watched the best TV I have seen in almost 50 years, House of Cards, I thought maybe I was missing out.
Fortitude came along with stunning views of one of my favourite countries, Iceland - If nothing else at least I would enjoy the scenery.
Well after putting up with 5 tedious, dull, uninteresting and pretentious episodes I want a refund of my life.
You know those games where everyone writes a sentence and then the group have to make them into a story ? It usually results in lots of laughter - it seems the people behind Fortitude had the same idea but forgot the laughter.
I have decided to wait until the end of series one and someone writes the plot on the back of cigarette packet, no a stamp. It will mean that I can at least recover a little from the wasted hours watching this nonsense.
Having great scenery, cinematography and actors ( they maybe able to act but you'd never know it from this ) is not enough.
Creating a pool of 1000 strange things just to get the response, "That's strange" is not a substitute for a plot, a narrative and a good twist.
This is TV by checklist:
1) Location - tick 2) Scenery - tick 3) Actors - tick 4) Odd things - tick 5) Story - ?
Someone wrote a review here saying ignore the negative reviews on Fortitude as it might be too clever for them - I expect they are the clever ones.
The line in Fortitude that says "no one can die here" doesn't relate to the viewers.
I'm out. Very poor Sky thought you could do better than this.