This show didn't seem to know what it wanted to be and what it did try to be it didn't seem to have the budget for.
The review will contain spoilers so be warned.
One of the first scenes we get is the fisherman's daughter introduces him to her new boyfriend, Ryan, the boyfriend is nasty to the father and its clear we shouldn't like or trust him. The problem here is that this remains the case for the rest of the shows 4 episodes, Ryan remains a nasty character and turns out that the father and the audiences opinion of him from the first 5 minutes was totally justified.
A better show would have started by making us hate the character of Ryan and then slowly revealed him to be a good person who we misjudged. Or someone who while being nasty isn't the true threat of the show. But we get none of that here.
Secondly in the very first scenes of the show we are treated to one of several nightmare sequences in which the father imagines the death of his son that drowned. These nightmares are vivid but play fast and loose with the exact details and seem to suggest early on that there is more to the child's death then meets the eye, perhaps even Ryan was involved?
But at the end of the 4 episode run this has gone nowhere and ends up being about 5 minutes of each episode that was a waste of time, it has nothing to do with the mystery at all.
The acting in the show runs from decent in some early scenes with the father to downright mediocre when it comes to the supporting cast and particularly Ryan who seems to spend the whole show glaring at people which makes you question why anyone would like him?
The worst acted characters of the show are definitely the wife and the detective, the wife seems to spend every scene yelling that she doesn't believe the husband or making a poor attempt to seem to care for her mother while the detective can be described as an empty suit that never seems to be doing anything, questions suspects without cautioning them and pulls warrants out as if they would be that easy to obtain.
And finally we come to the budget issues with the show, it's clear to see that a considerable portion of the shows budget may have gone into location and the principal casting. Its just unfortunate that they seem to have had no money left for things like a police station for interrogation scenes (one character is questioned in a shed on the beach in one of the worst scenes of the show.) They also appear to have had no funding for night time shooting as very few scenes occur at night, even when it would have been expected like the few times the father actually takes his fishing boat out to sea.
The review will contain spoilers so be warned.
One of the first scenes we get is the fisherman's daughter introduces him to her new boyfriend, Ryan, the boyfriend is nasty to the father and its clear we shouldn't like or trust him. The problem here is that this remains the case for the rest of the shows 4 episodes, Ryan remains a nasty character and turns out that the father and the audiences opinion of him from the first 5 minutes was totally justified.
A better show would have started by making us hate the character of Ryan and then slowly revealed him to be a good person who we misjudged. Or someone who while being nasty isn't the true threat of the show. But we get none of that here.
Secondly in the very first scenes of the show we are treated to one of several nightmare sequences in which the father imagines the death of his son that drowned. These nightmares are vivid but play fast and loose with the exact details and seem to suggest early on that there is more to the child's death then meets the eye, perhaps even Ryan was involved?
But at the end of the 4 episode run this has gone nowhere and ends up being about 5 minutes of each episode that was a waste of time, it has nothing to do with the mystery at all.
The acting in the show runs from decent in some early scenes with the father to downright mediocre when it comes to the supporting cast and particularly Ryan who seems to spend the whole show glaring at people which makes you question why anyone would like him?
The worst acted characters of the show are definitely the wife and the detective, the wife seems to spend every scene yelling that she doesn't believe the husband or making a poor attempt to seem to care for her mother while the detective can be described as an empty suit that never seems to be doing anything, questions suspects without cautioning them and pulls warrants out as if they would be that easy to obtain.
And finally we come to the budget issues with the show, it's clear to see that a considerable portion of the shows budget may have gone into location and the principal casting. Its just unfortunate that they seem to have had no money left for things like a police station for interrogation scenes (one character is questioned in a shed on the beach in one of the worst scenes of the show.) They also appear to have had no funding for night time shooting as very few scenes occur at night, even when it would have been expected like the few times the father actually takes his fishing boat out to sea.