The Wives

I started watching this as background/rainy day at home, It is filmed in Malta which is nice for some of the locations and background, The plot is quite loose and at times difficult to keep engaged with, The main reason I was able to watch the whole series is because I had created my own fantasy of Tanya Branning, Mel Owen and Kim Campbell being on a girls holiday together in some sort of Eastenders and Waterloo Road alternate reality which made it a little more enjoyable watching as if they where these characters and not the Morgan wives, although to be honest I quickly lost track of who was married to who.

I actually enjoyed this! Reading the reviews on here would have put me off, but I found it very entertaining. It was a real whodunnit and it kept me guessing until the end. The ending obviously wasn't as tidy as some people would have liked but I felt it left a door open to a second series, which I'd love to see.

The scenery was beautiful and certainly added glamour to the series. I felt the characters were well written with strengths and flaws and the acting certainly wasn't the worst by any means.

The plot had twists and turns and it certainly kept me entertained.

It's a shame is has so many poor reviews because I feel it deserves better.

Avoid this series like the plague, absolutely terrible script, unfortunately the acting is even more terrible. At no time does the plot make any sense, it seems to consist of quaffing large glasses of red wine, every other comment being about sex then a big row then everyone all friends again , and so it goes on around and around.

It takes about one minute into the first episode to realise this is a must miss, it made me miss the days of the test card being screened.

Anyway that's enough of the goods points !

The only plus side to it is that as it is a channel 5 production it means it didnt come out of license fee money.

Well, I wish I had looked at imdbs rating for this drama before I started watching it and I would have saved several hours of my life. It's very average at best. There's nothing wrong with the individual actors, it's just not very well written, so they struggle from a get-go. I actually thought that this was going to be a bit of a comedy with 3 meddling, middle-aged ladies, pretending to be detectives. For a family who was supposedly close with three brothers in a business they have a huge amount of secrets that suddenly come out of the woodwork , just not very believable!!!!!

The only thing that saves this are the beautiful landscapes of Malta.

Okay to watch, but there's no end to the story.

For some reason the writers, director, producers, etc think they're far smarter than they are and left it on a whimper instead of a bang. Could have been so much better than it was, if it had contained a start, middle and ending that were clearer about story, characters and point to the whole thing. As it was who had married whom got lost along the way, as did several other plot lines, and whole areas weren't addressed at all (where did the chips come from? Why use them?)

I lost 6 hours of my life for nothing.

If there is a second outing, doubt l'll bother viewing.