The first thing I noticed that I didn't care for was the camera work. The main character (Mrs. Fitzgerald played by Judy Clement) is blasé however one doesn't need to see the monotonous process of coffee being made (literally: they point the camera at the coffee maker and we're watching coffee literally being made) to get that she's indifferent. Then we get a long pause of the husband weeping/crying for way too long.
Then, the next thing I disliked was the overdramatic acting by Brandan Halpin (Brendan Fitzgerald) when he's over the phone with his father yelling at him to call the police because his mother has wandered off again. Then the coversation between Brendan and Eddie (Peter Pasco) told me two things: Brandan Halpin needs to learn to act better and not just shout things and Dave Bean (writer/director) can't write. Peter Pasco isn't too bad of an actor but his lines were too matter-of-fact. People, typically, speak in nuances. It's gradually different one area to another area. Here, you have a screenwriter being too succinct, being too literal in how he expresses the words for different characters; the periphrasis is the same. Typically: people do not talk like this in everyday speech.
Second episode, opening scene: what nurse dresses like that anymore? She's wearing the white outfit with a nursing cap? Nurses typically wear nursing scrubs with no cap in today's world. Mrs. Fitzgerald is apparently mentally disturbed; by the second episode it still isn't clear of what. Robert Dominick Jones' character (as a police officer) acts more like a mob boss or gangster than what typically a police officer acts like. The pauses, the wiping the mouth slowly with a napkin. Ridiculous. Third episode finally has the nurse wearing scrubs. Mrs. Fitzgerald was kidnapped by the police officer and we find out that Mrs. Fitzgerald has Alzheimer's. I loved the female cop played by Hershey Wingler making a complaint about another officer taking a bribe from a Mexican who she refers to as a racial slur. So upstanding. The acting does progressively get better except during the yelling scenes but the writing is still subpar. And, what's the big mystery reveal of why Mrs. Fitzgerald was kidnapped by a cop? Who knows...a drug deal gone bad? A scheme to rob bad cops? Not paying off bad cops? The two crooked cops arguing about being crooked was hilariously pathetic of a scene, it gets worse in the second season.
I skip-watched the last few episodes of season two. I will not be watching the third season in 2020.
Then, the next thing I disliked was the overdramatic acting by Brandan Halpin (Brendan Fitzgerald) when he's over the phone with his father yelling at him to call the police because his mother has wandered off again. Then the coversation between Brendan and Eddie (Peter Pasco) told me two things: Brandan Halpin needs to learn to act better and not just shout things and Dave Bean (writer/director) can't write. Peter Pasco isn't too bad of an actor but his lines were too matter-of-fact. People, typically, speak in nuances. It's gradually different one area to another area. Here, you have a screenwriter being too succinct, being too literal in how he expresses the words for different characters; the periphrasis is the same. Typically: people do not talk like this in everyday speech.
Second episode, opening scene: what nurse dresses like that anymore? She's wearing the white outfit with a nursing cap? Nurses typically wear nursing scrubs with no cap in today's world. Mrs. Fitzgerald is apparently mentally disturbed; by the second episode it still isn't clear of what. Robert Dominick Jones' character (as a police officer) acts more like a mob boss or gangster than what typically a police officer acts like. The pauses, the wiping the mouth slowly with a napkin. Ridiculous. Third episode finally has the nurse wearing scrubs. Mrs. Fitzgerald was kidnapped by the police officer and we find out that Mrs. Fitzgerald has Alzheimer's. I loved the female cop played by Hershey Wingler making a complaint about another officer taking a bribe from a Mexican who she refers to as a racial slur. So upstanding. The acting does progressively get better except during the yelling scenes but the writing is still subpar. And, what's the big mystery reveal of why Mrs. Fitzgerald was kidnapped by a cop? Who knows...a drug deal gone bad? A scheme to rob bad cops? Not paying off bad cops? The two crooked cops arguing about being crooked was hilariously pathetic of a scene, it gets worse in the second season.
I skip-watched the last few episodes of season two. I will not be watching the third season in 2020.
