marshy65

I watched this because I liked the premise of it. Three sisters-in-law, on holiday in Malta, turn amateur sleuths investigate the mysterious diseappearance of the fourth sister-in-law from the year before. They are aided and abetted by their niece (the disappeared sister-in-law's daughter) and eventually by the new girlfriend of the diseappeared lady, Turns out everyone has secrets (uncluding the theree wives) and a motive for wanting the disappeared lady out of the way. And who is the myterious stranger, the divorced wife meets via a dating app and how is he connected to the disappearance?

Although billed as a mystery thriller it comes across more as a comedy thriller or a black comedy. This does actually work well. The best part for me is the relationship between the three wives (making wisecracks, falling in and out with each other and bickering and getting themselves into scrapes). Although you're made to initially disike the new girlfriend you do eventually warm to her, especially with her outsiders aspect on the familys relationships and a lot of her out downs towards the others.

A similar attempt is made to create the same kind of relationship between the three brothers (the husbands) but they aren't as good actors and it doesn.t work as well,. Likewsie neither does having one of the brothers perpertually overseas and therefore neer seen.

And then there's the ending which I am going to just decribed as.......poor.

Entertaining, worth a watch.

So I binge watched the whole series when it was launched in the UK yesterday. I was expecting not to like it but I was very pleasantly surprised.

The series is a kind of The Lost World/Lost/The 100 combo. The plot is both character and situation driven with plenty of tense moments. No the acting isn't Oscar worthy but it's not bad and let's face it, the show isn't aiming to be Shakespeare and trust me I've seen far worse!

Minus points - certain situations that stretch credulity, the special effects (while not as bad as SyFy channel effects) still look cheap at times and, while still being watchable, the story loses some steam in the last 3 episodes.

There are enough loose threads left make a second series although I have my doubts this would be as good but Ill still watch it if one does come to be.

And those of you comparing this to SyFy channel movies, shame on you! How can anything be as bad as Martian Land and any of the Sharknado movies!