Playing Nice

This is a great story. Lots of times I found myself wondering what I'd do in their situation and it was worth the binge watch. Lots of moral questions asked throughout.

Well acted- I found all the main characters to be believable and they were well cast. Even the kids did well!

The scenery of Cornwall played a part here too, it was visually interesting too and gave a dramatic edge to it.

At various points there are twists and turns and obviously lots at the end. This is certainly one of the best UK TV dramas I've seen for a while (not big like Netflix etc) and makes a nice change from police dramas.

Give it a watch.

High hopes for this mini-series, but these were quickly dashed within 10 minutes of the first episode.

Formulaic, predictable and entirely unbelievable. A waste of a promising premise and quality cast.

By the time you get to the end of the final episode, you know what is going to be the outcome, but will struggle to care either way. Pantomime villains and seems to borrow a lot of the main protagonist's characteristics from Sleeping with the Enemy, only not as well or as menacingly.

There are so many flaws in the plot you lose the ability to empathise with the characters despite the awful situation.

It could and should have been so much better!

Four episodes of superb acting, plot, backdrop, everything! Horrific idea underpinning the whole thing but its all entirely plausible, really real characters, the story build and builds. And the way the "system" gets involved in these things is well portrayed. It'd be easy to binge watch the whole thing, was so good I saved the final episode to look forward to another day. Not a single weak episode in the whole thing - am really not sure what the couple of poor reviews were watching. It wasn't this! This is one of the best TV dramas I've seen for ages, will almost certainly watch it again. Highly recommend!

For goodness sake - dont people (reviewers) on here realise there is a world in which ''STORIES'' can exist?

Do reviwers think HARRY POTTER is actually real?

I mean those slagging off this because the plkot is (TO THEM) unbelievable, need to take a trip to their local shrink - and calm down.

The producers of this series (4 episodes) should be proud of themselves as should ITV.

This twisty turney plot meanders through the episodes in ways that swing the balance from one side to the other.

The second I saw the guy with the beard I thought "I don't like him - at all" - maybe because James Norton is one of my fav actors and does not have a beard! James is also a contender (as are others) for the next James Bond. Good luck James (if you want it)

Unlike most American shows - there are no car chases or guns blazing every five minutes - but what there is are plenty of "car chases" but in the form of your emotions.

Any parent will immediate with the terrible situation both sets of parents find themselves in - and I doubt many would have an "easy solution".

I am 30 mins from the end so don't know "who wins" but the journey so far has been superb.

Thank you all.

UPDATE: I have just seen the ending and I bet not a single loony on here who slagged off this ''FICTIONAL drama'' - would have even come close to guessing.

Too Bad - Your loss.

The subject matter starts off well. What would any of us do if we discovered that our child wasn't our child.

The frustration and confusion at the start makes sense and you do get a fairly accurate take on what 4 regular people would do in this scenario.

Then however, they made Pete become a complete man child without zero intellectual though, making basic mistake after basic mistake and being far too trusting for any normal human being. Then of course he forgets that he was a journalist and shows next to zero of these skills, showing zero attempt to do any basic research. With 99% of his mistakes just not being something any normal human being would make.

Peter aside, Miles was far too two dimensional a villain, being laughable at times, with Pete and Maddie not reacting like any normal person would. No police down South?

Overally the show starts with promise but soon turns into a badly written villain series, with Pete repeatedly making mistakes that makes no logical sense, and the finale was well, lackluster to say the least.

Doubt anyone will be watching this in a month's time.