Chancery_Stone

For some odd reason they've chosen to do recaps in a drama. Not the 'previously on...', we've got that too. No, they've decided to pepper the SAME flashbacks throughout the series, so we see the EXACT same shot of the heroine in her burning home, for example, over and over and OVER. By the time I was half way through the series I was also sick of the heroine's big round eyes. She only has one facial expression, one of consternation, which is used throughout. The script is pedestrian, the acting not much better, and the characters fundamentally annoying. It feels more like an episode of Eastenders drawn out REALLY slowly than a crime thriller. A big waste of time.

Only made it half way, watching this, out of sheer stubbornness. Completely unwatchable. Written by an 8 year-old with zero skills. Banal, boring - not just predictable but offensively unfunny. Stereotype blacks and gays circa 1980. Doesn't know whether it's aiming for laughs or thrills and delivers neither. Profoundly annoying characters, clichés spewing out of mouths right left and centre. Eckhart must have had a tax bill because there is NO way the script read like anything remotely worthwhile. Not even entertainingly bad, just bad. It's a cliché of a bad movie. How ironic.

I actually paused this half way through to see the reviews on Amazon because I wasn't sure if I was watching a spoof or not. It's a bizarre little picture of a marriage breakdown, which is done in no depth and has zero to do with Instagram and the masks we wear, but quite a lot to do with living in denial and kidding ourselves. Despite feeling almost acted in places, and despite not delivering what it alleges to, it is oddly compelling once you get into it. A weird little curio that does make you think, if only to realise just how common this is and how much we all do it (I carried out my own version of this for 40+ years!). And, for the record, you don't need a life coach to find these things out about yourself, but I would say the biggest advantage is it might speed the whole process up. He managed it in a quarter of the time I did, so perhaps money well-spent...