The Reunion

This looked promising, the cast are fantastic actors, the location is simply stunning and premise decent. After a couple of episodes, the whole thing starts to creek, the storyline becomes confused and strange. Then, episode by episode it gets worse until it's almost farcicle. Essentially it was an awful script, strange storyline and frankly unbelievable characters. Some of the storyline is just strange - not in a Donny Darko 'really makes you think' way, more of a 'what the heck was that about, humans don' t behave like that' way. What a waste of such excellent acting talent, who do their best to prop this up, but fail under the weight of such a poor story.

I was confused from the beginning. Too many time changes with too many characters before we had chance to work out who was who never mind who was the present day character and their younger self. There were name changes too which confused me even more. And don't get me started on the subtitles. Trying to read the subtitles whilst trying to work out whom is whom. The lovely scenery doesn't make up for the story being too complicated to follow. I'm so confused, were there two crimes or just one! I have no idea and to be honest, I don't care. Waste of time watching it when I was looking forward to my favourite type of mystery.

Must have cost a lot of money to produce this series judged by set location and number of episodes. But I challenge anyone to actually care what happened to Vinca? By episode 3 haven't we all had enough of these snatched incomplete conversations where characters drop a bombshell of a line and they just walk off or drive off in their posh French car without being challenged as to explain further about what they have just said. Vinca just skips around in flashbacks in a most irritating way and that is another reason not to care what happened to her. In fact non of the characters are likeable with the exception of Manon. Not really worked out what ,if anything, her being pregnant adds to the storyline? Wouldn't have started watching it had I known the extent to which subtitles are used.

Scenery and actors should have been a formula for success, unfortunately it didn't gel. From the disjointed beginning this looked like an bad mix--maybe they changed the script and directors every 20 minutes as a "new wave" in episodic drama. It felt like an editor came in with scissors and clipped all the good parts out.

The jumpy narrative only became more complicated as the story unfolded. I wish they'd have had a narrator dubbed in order to make sense of the action.

If you choose to waste your time here, try turning off the sound and guess the timeline of the action--it will be the only way you can justify your hours.

I'm picky about what I watch and only found this by accident on the ITVX app - I started watching and was instantly drawn in by the story and ended up binge watching all six episodes.

While not a masterpiece or anything, I thought this was really good. Lots of twists and turns, good performances by all the actors and the pace was excellent. There's so much going on but never too much that it's overwhelming - lots of twists and turns and the final episode gives you everything you want to know. There is no stone left unturned - no major plot holes that I caught and I think the writers did a good job.

There's not many ratings on this site and only a small number of reviews, so don't be put off and give it a chance to form your own opinion.

7/10.