La oficial Kat Crichton regresa a su isla natal para investigar un caso que involucra a un magnate adinerado.La oficial Kat Crichton regresa a su isla natal para investigar un caso que involucra a un magnate adinerado.La oficial Kat Crichton regresa a su isla natal para investigar un caso que involucra a un magnate adinerado.
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This was such an exciting prospect - a flagship Gaelic drama, set in one of the most dramatic, atmospheric landscapes in the world, and told in the poetic and evocative Gaelic language. It should have been a game-changer but instead we got a series of creaking old cliches that would have been out-of-date 20 years ago.
As a murder-mystery it completely failed, with glaring plot holes and a laughably-inept police investigation.
The dialogue was just Daytime Soap-level melodrama translated into Gaelic. Out of four hours of dialogue there's literally zero quotable lines. There are also zero memorable characters because there's no character development. The dialogue is largely there to help grind out the plot, not to reveal any character depth, detail or colour.
The landscape shots are stunningly-beautiful but we can see amazing Hebridean landscape footage on youtube without having to sit through awful drama.
What's so frustrating about this show is that as the first big budget Gaelic drama, it should have been bulletproof, with a script stress-tested to destruction (especially a murder-mystery which requires meticulous plotting).
So much of the dreadful dialogue, tired tropes and plotting errors shouldn't have made it beyond the first draft. But they did, and because of that it will be a long time before another major Gaelic drama gets made, and that's a great shame.
As a murder-mystery it completely failed, with glaring plot holes and a laughably-inept police investigation.
The dialogue was just Daytime Soap-level melodrama translated into Gaelic. Out of four hours of dialogue there's literally zero quotable lines. There are also zero memorable characters because there's no character development. The dialogue is largely there to help grind out the plot, not to reveal any character depth, detail or colour.
The landscape shots are stunningly-beautiful but we can see amazing Hebridean landscape footage on youtube without having to sit through awful drama.
What's so frustrating about this show is that as the first big budget Gaelic drama, it should have been bulletproof, with a script stress-tested to destruction (especially a murder-mystery which requires meticulous plotting).
So much of the dreadful dialogue, tired tropes and plotting errors shouldn't have made it beyond the first draft. But they did, and because of that it will be a long time before another major Gaelic drama gets made, and that's a great shame.
Seems like an intriguing premise, but the lead actress is totally miscast. She looks like a scared high school student plus she can't act. She has only one facial expression, which is a childlike wide-eyed stare. It's also more than a bit strange how everybody switches between English and Gaelic as they speak. Perhaps this is real, but it makes watching it and reading subtitles rather challenging. Also, why is it that Brtish television wants so desperately to make lead characters gay? And they make a point of creating scenes where this is suddenly revealed through a same-sex kiss, as if to say to the audience, "aha, bet you didn't see that coming!" It's getting tired and old.
As someone said before, the lead acress is a miscast. Totally wrong for the role and makes everything else completely unbelievable. The lead actress is so wrong as a police and has the same confused and scared expression all the time.
Plot doesn't hold up and by episode 4 you never really care anymore.
With a better cast and a better script it might had a chance to be good but now it is just off.
It is boing and boring.
It's a no from me and I am Sorry to say that I do not recommend it...
I give it 4 stars because of the interesting and beautiful scenery and the gaelic languange being used.
Plot doesn't hold up and by episode 4 you never really care anymore.
With a better cast and a better script it might had a chance to be good but now it is just off.
It is boing and boring.
It's a no from me and I am Sorry to say that I do not recommend it...
I give it 4 stars because of the interesting and beautiful scenery and the gaelic languange being used.
I really wanted this drama to be a success but it was awful. I would have turned off earlier if it wasn't for the beautiful scenery and the false hope this drama would get better. The plot was full of holes and the police investigation was laughable with a comedy of errors. As a reviewer has said the lead character was miscast and the overall acting so cringeworthy. This had so much potential but it felt to me that they had a rough storyline that cried out to be developed, but instead crammed it into a 4 episode drama. Therefore, none of the characters had much substance to them and the drama was a wasted opportunity.
What's most disappointing about this series is the lack of ambition. They tried to do a mash-up of 'Scandi Noir' and old Bergerac-style shows and ended up with neither, instead of making something fresh with its own identity, based on the unique language and environment.
Scandi Noir worked brilliantly because it wasn't trying to copy another genre. It also worked brilliantly because it was (mostly) based on excellent, successful novels, so they were already building on a strong foundation.
This series is based on an 'amateur dramatics' script which borrows from tired old shows that went off-air years ago. Scandi Noir also had tight, expert plotting, not the rambling, error-strewn 'first draft' feel of this effort.
There's no attempt to capture the pitch-black Highland Scottish humour that people - especially police - use to cope with grimness and tragedy. That would at least have given it some believability, some character and would also have distinguished it from the generic old shows it's trying (and failing) to copy.
While many detective shows have a humourless intensity, that can work brilliantly if you have compelling dialogue and a taught, intense script, whereas this is just everybody glowering and sighing and delivering cliches that sound overwrought and hammy.
I hope the next Gaelic drama tries to make something unique and original. You don't need a million quid an episode, just a decent script and the passion to make something that stands on its own, not a bad version of other old genres.
Scandi Noir worked brilliantly because it wasn't trying to copy another genre. It also worked brilliantly because it was (mostly) based on excellent, successful novels, so they were already building on a strong foundation.
This series is based on an 'amateur dramatics' script which borrows from tired old shows that went off-air years ago. Scandi Noir also had tight, expert plotting, not the rambling, error-strewn 'first draft' feel of this effort.
There's no attempt to capture the pitch-black Highland Scottish humour that people - especially police - use to cope with grimness and tragedy. That would at least have given it some believability, some character and would also have distinguished it from the generic old shows it's trying (and failing) to copy.
While many detective shows have a humourless intensity, that can work brilliantly if you have compelling dialogue and a taught, intense script, whereas this is just everybody glowering and sighing and delivering cliches that sound overwrought and hammy.
I hope the next Gaelic drama tries to make something unique and original. You don't need a million quid an episode, just a decent script and the passion to make something that stands on its own, not a bad version of other old genres.
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- TriviaThe credits for the show in its original BBC Alba broadcast are in Scottish Gaelic, but the names of the characters within the show appear in both Scottish Gaelic and English (e.g. Mac'Illeathain and Maclean).
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idiomas
- También se conoce como
- The Island
- Locaciones de filmación
- Harris, Outer Hebrides, Escocia, Reino Unido(main location)
- Productoras
- Ver más créditos de la compañía en IMDbPro
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 52 minutos
- Color
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