Reviews

I love these historical romantic dramas. This was really well done and the characters were great. It started off really well but towards the end, some things got a little confusing. It seemed as though it was rushed. And the very end was extremely disappointing. I was expecting a full on lovely kiss between the two main characters and instead they just stared at each other smiling. Not much thought put into that. So it left me wanting more.

I loved Kim Ro-Woon in The King's Affection (One of the best Kdramas I have ever seen) and even though he's a fantastic actor, I feel this drama could have been better. But still worth watching!

This is certainly not Star Trek as we know it. It's a massive pile of garbage. Seriously. I watched four episodes (four episodes too many) and gave up. What a load of codswallop. The lead woman (called Michael for some strange reason), is extremely annoying and arrogant. Her room mate, Sylvia acts like she has one brain cell, blabbering on and on. Yet we're expected to believe she is part of star fleet and has intelligence apparently. The crew are there in the background but as yet, no one has properly been introduced - there are no proper characters evolving. Some weird looking aliens but have no clue to their names or character. Bloody awful. And that stupid woman (don't know her name, don't know any of their names really and don't care either) going all gung-ho and letting that creature out of the confinement area - what were the writers thinking? These are meant to be highly trained individuals yet they act like bickering kids. Apart from 'Michael' of course, who is too cool for words (apparently). I loved the original Star Trek and also TNG. The characters were fantastic. Discovering new worlds, encountering new species - fantastic story lines. This is none of that. At all. I hope it gets cancelled - it isn't Star Trek as we know it and doesn't deserve to use Star Trek's name. It's a disgrace. Don't get me started on the uniforms... ha!

We watched the first episode and it was creepy and held a lot of potential... but then it failed dismally. Episode two was so boring that none of us wanted to see or cared about the third part. But when you've watched two you might as well see all of them. Big mistake. We ended up laughing at most of it. None of it made sense and most of the characters reactions were completely unrealistic. For instance the young boy was on a swing when suddenly it stopped mid air and he jumps off, turns around and sees the ghost sitting on it. Usual reaction would be to run off shrieking or 'look like you've just seen a ghost'. But no, he just walks off slowly to the others and doesn't even mention it. Who wrote this big pile of rubbish? The main young girl in it, the carer - can't remember her name and I can't even be bothered to look up her name, spends about 90% of the episodes crying. It's just so bad... don't bother watching it. There are so many good dramas out there and this doesn't rate amongst them!

I love this show and so does everyone else I know. It's brilliantly written, the characters are superb. I'm not sure why some people find it so awful but then each to his own. There are loads of so-called comedies on the TV that I find downright terrible and yet others love them. So hey-ho. The teachers in this are brilliantly portrayed. I like all of them but my favourite is played by Phil Glenister. The way he holds his mouth and the way he walks inspire laughs straight away. Perhaps the bad reviewers are taking it all too seriously - maybe they think it is meant to be serious or something. But this is what it is. A very funny play on teachers - making them think and act like competitive children. That's the core of the comedy. I do hope they make another series because I know many people that would love to see it! I think episode five was my favourite.

I miss Merlin on Saturday nights and this new show was supposed to fill the void. It failed big time. Most of the acting was awful but that was most probably down to the appalling script. Mark Addy was good but the main actor left a lot to be desired. Most of it was childish claptrap yet they put it on in the evening. Might have been better putting it on at teatime - kids may have liked it. For adults it was tame to say the least. What was so unrealistic was Jason's reaction to arriving in an ancient world - he hardly turned a hair. Very weird. Everything was predictable - especially when his new 'best friend' picked out the black stone. Hmmmm didn't know that was coming! Ha! We watched about half of the programme before turning it off. You can only take so much drivel.

Loved the first 3 and a half episodes of this. It was building up and up and up to something really good and then fizzled out with a stupid ending. It was just daft. I notice there are a few reviews where the viewers have only seen the first one or two episodes and then left a review. I would've said it was really good as well watching just the first three but the ending was very disappointing. One of those endings that left you thinking "I've just wasted 4 hours of my life" you know? What goes through the writers head I don't know. I won't actually say what happens as I'll leave that for other viewers to see. Just personally I found it disappointing and unbelievable. To go through all that worry and fear, planning and recruiting and then just to end on such a note - well - very poor indeed!

I looked at the votes for this show and couldn't believe how high it was. How odd. Most reviewers have slammed it the same as I'm going to do! It was utter rubbish. We watched about twenty minutes before giving up. It was such utter dross and so unreal. I read the info beforehand and thought it sounded good - how wrong can you be? One woman actor looked at a white cloud heading her way and shouted out in horror that it was approaching. Obviously this cloud wasn't a good thing! So if she knew how bad this cloud was, why then did she stand still and look at it when she was just feet from a shelter. Pathetic. Another few things happened like that where peoples reactions to situations were just wrong! I really wonder at the writers - what were they thinking? They must think we're all a bunch of gibbering lunatics and will sit and watch TV no matter what it is. Wrong! It's a shame it's got so many episodes - something, anything else would be better put in its place!

I found this a bit daft but still quite entertaining. It's maybe a programme that could improve with time... maybe. I think some writers lose the plot in the fact that, even fantasy fun dramas still have to have a touch of reality about them, especially when it comes to peoples reactions to certain situations. For instance, there's a part where Erin finds the old woman, Olive in the only bed there (apparently). They scream at each other in fright and then Erin goes down to spend the night on a grotty old sofa. Finding it hard to sleep she then goes back to the even grottier bed and climbs in with the old woman. That's a definite no-no. That just wouldn't happen. For a start you wouldn't sleep next to someone you didn't know, if you didn't have to and secondly, there's no way you'd touch that bed. No way. Disgusting. So although this drama was quite entertaining, it lacked reality. It was almost like a child had written it, someone who had no experience of the real world and how people actually act. Peculiar. They should get Bruce Robinson from Withnail & I to show them a thing or two - now that's how people would really react!

I tried watching this but gave up. I guess it's aimed at a younger crowd - I'm 44. I turned off just after the scene where one of the girls at the bar is hit on by a bloke (teacher by profession). Their dialogue was awful and the acting even worse. All eyes rolling, lips pouting and innuendos. Do Americans really speak like that? Who watches this rubbish? I thought it might be an interesting show to watch with intrigue etc - how wrong was I? It came across as really low budget with really cheaply paid actors who couldn't act. I thought, looking at the cover, that it might be a younger version of Desperate Housewives - it really wasn't! Desp Housewives is leagues above this awful show. But then, as I said earlier, I'm 44. Perhaps a younger person would enjoy listening to the whiney voiced teenagers who can't act... can't see that myself but you never know!

This was an okay adaptation but could have been so much better. The lead actor didn't suit the role at all and everything was a little too clean cut. For instance, the part where Ben Hur has been on a galley ship for 3 years is laughable. He is clean shaven, hardly a hair out of place (still short back and sides!) and not a sign of a blemish on his skin! Really! Hmmm... perhaps he had a shower everyday??! Ray Winstone was very good in his role as was Stephen Campbell Moore, Alex Kingston and Art Malik. So it was watchable but if you compare it to Rome or Spartacus then it falls way short! I certainly wouldn't bother watching it again but if you have nothing else to do, watch it but just don't expect anything gripping!

This film started off well. I love period dramas and this fit the bill. Lovely costumes, great scenery and it had an air of mystery and intrigue. Very well done... until the end. It's got to be one of the most stupidest endings ever, seriously. I don't mind nude scenes etc, doesn't bother me at all. What does bother me is taking the viewer for an absolute moron. Reality went completely out of the window when the whole crowd has an orgy. How ridiculous! If perhaps the perfume had allowed the murderer to have control over the people immediately near him, maybe that would have been more believable but to control a whole crowd of, say, nearly a thousand people. No. Not in a million years. Utter pap. It ruined what could have been such a great film. I loved the rest of it. The dirt and grime of the streets and the tannery. Really good. Why ruin it? It certainly puts me off EVER reading Patrick Suskind's novels. Please God, they don't ever make another of his novels into a film. Yes, he does have other books. What a disappointment for customers who buy them!

This is one of the most boring films I have watched in ages. It was dragged out to the point where I almost fell asleep! Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor acted well but the plot was terrible. As someone else commented, it kept hopping from one thing to the other and never really explained properly why certain things were happening. The last half an hour was most probably the worst. So stupid and pointless. I like the way that the police kept leaving Tom Hanks and his co-partner alone! Like that would happen? Several scenes are left with them and the baddie alone - that just wouldn't happen. Well, maybe once but several - naaah! I kept shaking my head thinking, this is ridiculous. I like fantasy in a movie, as do most people, but when the film is trying to be serious, then no. What a waste of a couple of hours - wish I'd read a book! lol.