Fear

Gave this a chance but...middle class family move into big house in I think, Glasgow. He Scottish she posh English and English kids. Dialogue dull and possibly written by AI. Creepy guy in basement, creepy from the off so there's no surprise when he turns out to be creepy. His so called business as an architect is, again, mechanical with buzz words and meaningless business expressions. Utterly without any atmosphere. She meets similarly entitled friend for lunch. Dull dull dull dull. No tension, no personality. I thought 'why doesn't he just kill them all with a rusty ax and get it over with' Good money is being spent on this pointless, bland, predictable dross.

3 hours of my life I won't get back. Preposterous waste of decent actors in a terribly scripted, awfully directed and woefully edited dullma.

It's slow, and daft and a real shame that normally strong actors would have to try and be convincing in a totally unconvincing story. How did the dafty downstairs get all his equipment together when he can't string a sentence together? How does he afford it? Why did they buy a house with a basement sub let? Why does the Compton character lie all the time ? What was all that nonsense with the woman in the bar? Why did his wife let it go? What were the police doing? Absolute nonsense.

Despite the exceptional performances of the actors, the plot was disappointingly predictable and resulted in a convoluted and meaningless conclusion. I was waiting for the plot twist however it never came. Why did the guy Jan have to bug the house? What's the reason behind the death of his sister? I just don't understand I'm so confused. I should never watch bothered watching this. Why did the Mum avoid passing the phone to his dad? Is it because the dad is a killer which is a joke itself? Ruined a very good actor wasted time don't bother watching it. Hopefully there won't be a season two that would be painful.

A young family move to tranquil Park Terrace in Glasgows west end. How lovely. They have purchased a multi million pound property, despite no real evidence of income..mmm.. Yes Yes, we know he is up is an architect and she is a scientist etc but she has no job and he has no commissions...go figure. Anyway a thorn in the side of this lovely wholesome family is the NEIGHBOUR IN THE BASEMENT..This poor guy is so obviously living with poor mental health and his fragility is totally obvious to anyone, except this pair. How this poor man could afford to rent a flat here( which is generally a few thousand a month) is never explained. Anyway things go pair shaped as expected and Martin spends his days angry. Theres some attempt at a back story involving his dad but its just a bit of filler, which sort of sums up this series. Its mainly filler with loads of plot holes. I wont give the ending away but it will not suprise you and by that point you wont really care anyway. I kept watching this waiting for it to improve and it never did. If this was set in a council house in Glasgow nobody would watch it for longer than 10 mins. As previously noted, the house is the star.

The star of this show has to be the gorgeous townhouse. The rest of it is pretty unremarkable. The pacing is a bit slow, and the story unoriginal.

Although the acting is fine, the script doesn't give them much to work with. Nothing really interesting occurs, you could actually miss large bits of the first two episodes and just continue watching without missing anything important.

I'm not really invested in the main characters. The husband is not particularly likeable, and the wife is somewhat dull.

Finally, the ending doesn't make a load of sense. Surely selling the place would have been a much better solution?