"Hollington Drive" Episode #1.1 (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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(2021)

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5/10
Not a very dynamic start.
Sleepin_Dragon30 January 2022
A feud begins to brew between sisters Helen and Theresa, on the day that a ten year old Alex disappears from the idyllic suburbs of Hollington Drive.

The trailers and images made out that this was a slick and stylish thriller, unfortunately this first episode doesn't exactly get the pulse racing, it's a bit of a mundane beginning. It wasn't bad, it was watchable, just hard to score it highly, as it just felt a bit flat. Well made and well acted.

Some of the characters are really hard work, Eddie is the biggest idiot I've seen on screen for some time, and as for The Sisters Grim, they are a depressing pair of siblings.

The last time I recall Anna Maxwell Martin and Rachel Stirling working together it was on The Bletchley Circle, I think their talents were better used there.

Not bad, just a bit underwhelming, 5/10.
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5/10
Needs more drive
xmasdaybaby196621 October 2021
There are lots of familiar faces here which doesn't help because you spend most of the time wondering what you have seen them in before (thank heavens for IMDB!).

It's slow moving and all very middle class England (despite being filmed in Wales).

Anna Maxwell Martin is her usual alluring earthy self but there is little else appealing about the rest of it apart from actually having a show without a policeman taking centre stage.

It looks like there is going to be more filler than thriller to this.
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3/10
Episode 1
Prismark104 October 2021
Usually the first episode of a thriller series involves setting the scene. The good ones starts out with a bang.

Hollington Drive goes off with a whimper. An anodyne beginning with two well to do families having a nice barbecue and rather unconcerned that a school boy has gone missing.

Theresa (Anna Maxwell Martin) thinks that her son and stepdaughter might know more about the missing child.

Her sister Helen (Rachael Stirling) is the head of the local primary school. She has also been having an affair with Gareth, the father of the missing boy.

The scenes between Helen and Gareth were just too unconvincing. It was also not a surprise that someone was having an affair.

This was an inferior attempt to be a new Broadchurch.
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