Reviews

If you're looking for an excellent mystery binge watch, I highly recommend this series. The mystery starts right away and builds to the end.

Morven Christie is always likeable, even more so in this role. Her life is flipped upside down and she's left trying to make sense of the who and why. She is thrown into a world she knew nothing about and used her resilience and determination to power through.

Peter Mullan is fantastic as a powerful, dangerous man. I'm used to seeing Julie Graham play strong yet sensitive characters and she does a great job as a crime lord's wife.

I'd never seen Prassana Puwanarajah before and was captivated by how well he portrayed a DC who was a mix of empathetic and intense. I'll be watching for him in other roles!

Watching this over 30 years after the release of this film, it's still a fantastic portrayal of difficult topics. What still stands out is Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance. Before this she was nearly always sweet, shy characters in films. The jump from that to Tralala really shows her talent and commitment to the characters she plays.

Alexis Arquette was fantastic and so was Stephen Lang. Rikki Lake was also in it and so was Jerry Orbach plus watch for a young Sam Rockwell!

One thing for sure, I'll never hear Fitzpleasure by Alt J the same way ever again after watching it this time.

If you are looking for a dark, intense movie, this might be good. If you're looking for a happy ending, you'll need to find something else.

I really enjoyed this mini-series and have a new appreciation of Will Poulter's acting skills. I am used to him playing a goofball, but he was brilliant as a serious main character.

Lucy Boynton was great as the female lead. She was very convincing as 1930's feisty, independent and brave Lady Derwent.

Miles Jupp's character was a very difficult man, and that was fun to see the contrast between that and his usual light-hearted, funny personality. I kept expecting him to say something funny, but he was believable as a serious character.

The miniseries has many twists and turns, and I didn't solve the mystery until the end. It was a fun binge watch!

I hope Hugh Laurie creates another Agatha Christie mini-series - he did a great job with this one!

That could have been the tag line for the film.

I really wanted to like this movie - it started light and darkly funny but quickly became an hour and a half watching people be cruel to the main character.

We see enough cruelty and bullying on social media, I was not expecting to also see it in this film.

The acting was very good, though. Each actor (apart from the primary) did a fantastic job being completely unlikeable.

Judy Greer is amazing in everything she is in so I was excited to see this. It started out great and funny, but then got more serious. At the end I was left feeling sad. It packed a lot of feelings into a very short film.

What I noticed more than anything (apart from the bizarre accents that came and went) was how Jenna Coleman looks like she is about to start laughing in nearly every scene she is in, despite the serious subject matter. She holds her mouth in a half smile even when awful things are happening. It's really odd.

The one character with a really good accent was Alice Englert who played an American. The rest sound like they were guessing how their accent was supposed to sound without ever hearing it before.

This could have been so much better.

Jenna Coleman was outstanding and the part she played would not been nearly as good with anyone else. This series had twists and turns and it pulled us right in. Just when it seems like I thought I had it figured out, there was another small twist that shed light on what had already happened. Excellent from beginning to end. Great to binge watch!

This movie started off great--the acting was excellent, and the characters draw you in quickly. The actors were excellent and each episode got more interesting as it went along. I was completely engrossed until the last episode: It felt like the screenwriter had stepped away from the computer after just beginning the last page and their son, home from college and high on acid, typed in the ending. The ending was quite incongruent with the rest of the series and it was disappointing.

The trailer made the film look quirky and funny, yet there was nothing quirky or funny at all in the entire movie. I kept waiting for it to make sense but it only got more convoluted as time went on. And on. And on. It felt like the writer had set the unwritten story down and someone on Ketamine picked it up, added some lines and finished the story. Looks like I picked the wrong night to stop sniffing glue when I watched it.

I saw this series when it first aired and it has impacted me still, four years later.

I have never seen so much story packed tightly into 3 episodes before. There are layers upon layers showing the many different lives people live and how the characters interact alone and in a group.

This series has a very powerful "before you judge others, consider what they are going through" message without slapping you in the face with it. I even felt shame for making an early assumption about one chatacter that I inevitably adored and admired greatly.

You know those "How are you feeling today?" forms with every emotion possible listed? I felt nearly all of them through each episode.

The most impactful scene that brings emotion just thinking about it even four years later was paired perfectly with the song "Choir to the Wild" by Solomon Grey. There has not been a better song matched to a scene in any move I have ever seen. I discovered Solomon Grey through this series and love all of their music.

The acting was outstanding and the scenery was lovely.

It's not a light, happy series at all, but it is a fascinating look at life from many different perspectives and will certainly cause you to look at things differently.

I saw this on Acorn TV and was drawn in by the photo of Adrian Dunbar (from Line of Duty). It was a little bumpy to watch at the beginning and as it got to the last episode things all fell into place. It is not a light, uplifting series at all and toward the last episode it got quite heartbreaking. The acting was excellent, which I knew to expect at least from Adrian Dunbar.

Psychologically it all makes sense in the end and looking back you can see why the decisions that had been made were made, with honest intentions, and without knowing the path things would take.

I was pulled in by the photo on the show title page and was surprised at first that the series is in Welsh. I'm in Seattle and have no clue what is being said so was really thankful there is closed captioning in English. The stories unfold in a really creative way, starting with the end result and then jumping back 35 days prior to the event and moving foward to the outcome we see at the beginning. Sounds strange but it works really well and it's fun to seeing the big picture step by step this way. The acting is excellent, the stories are well told and the language is really beautiful. If you don't speak Welsh, don't let the subtitles deter you from watching. It's a fun dark mystery that I hope will continue for many more seasons!

Stephen Mangan is very talented and funny, and I had hoped this show would utilize his skills. It did not. The subject matter is more awkward and stressful to watch than funny. The director/creator David Cross is also generally funny in an off the wall kind of way but this show seems out of character for him. I like a little heightened tension in TV series but not from the start to the end of each episode.

This has to be one of the funniest movies ever made. There is so much humor throughout, you have to see it more than once, even more than twice. I can't think of any other movie that I still love, even 23 years later, and can laugh as hard now at it as I did then. I wish they still made movies like this...that were as funny!