The Deceived

It was OK, sort of a Gaslight type of thriller but I was under thrilled. I don't feel my time was wasted. Good, not great. It could have been way creepier!

The Deceived: Melodramatic but in a good way as it provides hooks to grab your attention. fires, murders, missing people, dastardly dons (from Cambridge for a change). Emily Reid is good as an infatuated but resilient student with Emmett Scanlan going all out sociopathic as the lecherous lecturer. Hokum but good hokum. Four episodes. 7/10.

Over the years it's been easy to laugh at the dramatic content given to us by Channel five, but things are changing, we've had Blood, and now this.

This was a truly excellent four part drama, The Deceived is a smart, creepy, sinister series, which will have you gripped until its conclusion.

I would agree with the comments about this having more than a hint of Rebecca about it, very much so, and despite being set in modern day, the story has a wonderful vintage feel to it, it could have been written in 1946.

Very nicely produced, well made, very well acted indeed, Emmett J Scanlan gives a very good, captivating performance throughout. You'll be asking yourself is he a good guy or not the whole way through.

The finale leaves us with the possibility of a second series, I'm not sure it's necessary, four episodes of high quality drama, 8/10.

The storyline was good but the music was so loud you could not hear the dialogue.

Did not think this was good. The main flaw I felt was the characters, none of them likable and none with any common sense in their thoughts or realistic logic to their actions. It lacked tension or suspense and I wasn't really bothered when it tried. I kept watching because it seemed to have potential to get better... but no.