For Her Sins

Starts out as an interesting and somewhat exciting drama, where everyone seems to have something dark and sinister to hide, but turns quickly into a mess where everyone is acting very unconvincingly and taking stupid and irrational decisions. That is Really annoying, because the basics of the storyline are quite interesting and a lot of money have obviously been thrown into the production. Jo Joyner has always something to offer, but is left empty- handed, because of a poor manuscript. The other main actors perform quite well, but that does not save the series, who will quickly fall into oblivion.

Another version of the psycho inserting themselves into somebody's life for some reason and putting them through hell for some reason whilst pretending to be their friend. Unrealistic, but still compelling watching. Camera work on close-ups is very wobbly and could make you nauseous. Performances are adequate, apart from when the teacher walk towards the villain as if she is going to kill her and then just asks her to pass something on to her friend; laughably bad. Where does this woman who is a nanny have the money to have Spa days, nights out, hotel breaks and never actually be working? Suspend logical thinking and you may enjoy it.

Ignore the negative comments if you enjoy a drama that's easy watching and not bothered if it's a little cheesy.

Actually enjoyed watching this most of the time, had to turn off at one point as it was stressing me out as the character Emily is so awful to Laura, but I have just managed to finish watching the last two episodes and was a little thrilling and I wanted to tell Laura to 'come on, really'.

It's not the best drama, but was something good to watch this week and Channel 5 aren't normally the best for there dramas but this was much better than they normally have on the telly these days.

Laura's perfect life begins to spiral out of control when she befriends mum at The School Emily. Laura hides a dark secret, and Emily is keen for it to come out, regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

Ok, so it's not a perfect show, but it's very watchable, and in terms of The Channel Five drama scale, I'd put it somewhere in the middle. Well produced, better than some of the boring dramas on recently, and easy to follow, it's got a fairly straightforward plot, you won't be scratching your head trying to piece together intricate threads, it isn't like that.

This needed to be edited down to three episodes, over four it was stretched out a little too thinly, episode three lacked a little bit of content.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes, I do feel that it flagged a bit after that, at times you so question is wandering around with her eyes shut.

I thought that the acting was spot on, I adore Jo Joyner, and she did a cracking job, great to see her leading a series again, she is so good. Rachel Shenton was brilliant as Emily, perfect for the part, she kept reminding me of Cheryl Cole, but with acting talent.

Anne Mitchell and Jo Joyner are no strangers to eachother, they've played mother and daughter once before, namely on EastEnders.

6/10.

I stumbled upon this during a binge of channel 5 dramas and found it an easy, although sometimes frustrating watch. Jo Joyner is a great leading lady and her biggest quality is her likeability, she's like very one's mum/sister/friend. Where this falls a little short is how gullible she is for a lawyer, maybe that was the wrong career choice for the character. A few quibbles aside it's an easy watch with just enough surprises to keep you watching but it sits somewhere in the middle in terms of Channel 5 drama output. Curious about where it was filmed, not the UK I don't think? Again just a quibble.