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I rarely write reviews, but this needed one.
I'd seen about 10 mins of one episode and I simply HAD to go looking for it on BBCiplayer.
After episode 1 I was hooked! Intrigued. I was impressed and could wait to continue.
By the end of episode 2. Eh? What the? No way! C'mon.
Even by now having watched all 3 episodes, I still don't think I fully understand.
The writers (although very good at imaginative at what they came up with) seem to have crammed an entire 10 seasons of 10 episode each, into literally 3 episodes.
As many others have already written before me in their reviews, this is so far-fetched and slightly cringeworthy to watch. If only they had kept 20% of the plot twists and ditched the rest, this would have been great.
Probably the most unrealistic (if it's even possible to narrow it down) would be the amount of times the lead character Gabe seems to miraculously evade the police. Between numerous police visits and phone calls, stealth sneaking a van out of a crime scene undetected while convincing everyone he's someone else (twice), getting into a huge drunk driver crash directly in front of police and escaping a chase thereafter, sneaking out of an art gallery as police intercept the others he's just completed a deal with, having zero fear or concern about turning up at a police station to collect an impounded van and not bumping into the officers who are after him.. it just goes on and on. He's houdini!
It's never made 100% clear (or at least not to me) what exactly happended all those years ago. Somebody's father was killed and his own mother was killed. Both in the fire? Or, just the father of ..whoever it was. ?? Anyway, it takes until almost the end of episode 3 before finding out that the girl started the fire but the boy took the blame. I think.
Don't even ask me who the people from the pub are. I have no idea. All i know is, they are friends with his dad.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
It's a shame because much of this show was decent and enjoyable to watch. I still couldn't have switched off and gave up on it. I needed to at least TRY and figure it all out. Some of the plot twists were good. But there was way too many for anything to be taken seriously.
The lead actors stood out for me, having seen them all for the first time. Iain De Caestecker (Gabe) and Joanna Vanderham (Sam) were both very good, as was the father who's name i sadly forget. The other actors (for me) were either too under-used or frankly were bad. Sorry.
I'd like to see (and hopefully will) those three I've mention as the stand-out actors in other roles, different movies/series. Wait, I should mention Taj Atwal (Leigh) who I also felt was decent.
As I mentioned at the start, It's extremely rare for me to leave a review and likewise to watch a UK based show, the vast majority of which are garbage. So this was refreshing. I gave it a 6/10 but if only they hadn't overdone the fiction this could easily have been an 8 or 9.
Maybe they might make a season 2 where Anthony is found washed up on a beach ..by fishermen ..who just happen to include Ian (who I think was the father) ...but, it's not Anthony, it's his twin, who's secretly been dating Robo.. and the police are somehow involded (duh, obviously) ...and yeah ..you get the idea.
I rarely write reviews, but this needed one.
I'd seen about 10 mins of one episode and I simply HAD to go looking for it on BBCiplayer.
After episode 1 I was hooked! Intrigued. I was impressed and could wait to continue.
By the end of episode 2. Eh? What the? No way! C'mon.
Even by now having watched all 3 episodes, I still don't think I fully understand.
The writers (although very good at imaginative at what they came up with) seem to have crammed an entire 10 seasons of 10 episode each, into literally 3 episodes.
As many others have already written before me in their reviews, this is so far-fetched and slightly cringeworthy to watch. If only they had kept 20% of the plot twists and ditched the rest, this would have been great.
Probably the most unrealistic (if it's even possible to narrow it down) would be the amount of times the lead character Gabe seems to miraculously evade the police. Between numerous police visits and phone calls, stealth sneaking a van out of a crime scene undetected while convincing everyone he's someone else (twice), getting into a huge drunk driver crash directly in front of police and escaping a chase thereafter, sneaking out of an art gallery as police intercept the others he's just completed a deal with, having zero fear or concern about turning up at a police station to collect an impounded van and not bumping into the officers who are after him.. it just goes on and on. He's houdini!
It's never made 100% clear (or at least not to me) what exactly happended all those years ago. Somebody's father was killed and his own mother was killed. Both in the fire? Or, just the father of ..whoever it was. ?? Anyway, it takes until almost the end of episode 3 before finding out that the girl started the fire but the boy took the blame. I think.
Don't even ask me who the people from the pub are. I have no idea. All i know is, they are friends with his dad.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
It's a shame because much of this show was decent and enjoyable to watch. I still couldn't have switched off and gave up on it. I needed to at least TRY and figure it all out. Some of the plot twists were good. But there was way too many for anything to be taken seriously.
The lead actors stood out for me, having seen them all for the first time. Iain De Caestecker (Gabe) and Joanna Vanderham (Sam) were both very good, as was the father who's name i sadly forget. The other actors (for me) were either too under-used or frankly were bad. Sorry.
I'd like to see (and hopefully will) those three I've mention as the stand-out actors in other roles, different movies/series. Wait, I should mention Taj Atwal (Leigh) who I also felt was decent.
As I mentioned at the start, It's extremely rare for me to leave a review and likewise to watch a UK based show, the vast majority of which are garbage. So this was refreshing. I gave it a 6/10 but if only they hadn't overdone the fiction this could easily have been an 8 or 9.
Maybe they might make a season 2 where Anthony is found washed up on a beach ..by fishermen ..who just happen to include Ian (who I think was the father) ...but, it's not Anthony, it's his twin, who's secretly been dating Robo.. and the police are somehow involded (duh, obviously) ...and yeah ..you get the idea.
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