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As far as the usual rubbish you associate with anything with Netflix's fingerprints on this is perhaps a once in a decade exception.

Cold cases, current trauma and a star turn by the 'Syrian' Akram provided a very watchable drama. To an extent.

If you can tolerate a mopy Matthew Goode, a cliched therapist and a police department that could be outwitted by an elephant with nosebleed in the snow, I can recommend this drama for sure.

The biggest let down by far is the amount of red herring baggage DeptQ carries. The investigation bounces the team like a ping pong ball, but ultimately there is little joy to be had. Compound this with the headache you'll get in trying to remember who's who and how they fit in the story and the absurdity of the police investigations you somehow feel the series could have been dealt with in just 4 episodes.

Nevertheless, stick with it. There are moments of tension and drama. Not telling you how the investigation goes but you'll be happy at the closure. Definitely not an 8+ on IMDB, a strong 7.0 methinks.

A crew in a desolated fishing outpost; struggling with food, cold and spirit. After a traumatic encounter with the survivors of a sunken ship, whom they fail to rescue due to their own personal condition the crew appears to be cursed.

I followed the film, getting drawn into their perilous condition and the heartbreaking dilemma when faced with the shipwrecked crew.

So far so good.

The film is set in a beautiful but hostile icy landscape. It's the night scenes which got me annoyed. It was difficult to follow the drama with poor lighting. Throughout the film the dialogue was half mumbled. Soundtrack is on point however.

As much a psychological drama as a thriller it fails to break any new ground relying on jump scares too often.

I wouldn't necessarily not recommend the film as it makes a brave attempt to offer a worthy drama but ultimately it falls short.

For such a fine actor things must have been incredibly desperate if Simon McCorkindale took this project on.

Looking back it is embarrassing. Grown adults acting in such a laughable drama.

It's full of white man's privilege, how this tribe passed this magical gift of transformation to a white explorer's son, who only uses it to save his mates. Never so much goes back to the tribe with a box of chocolates as a thank you.

Perhaps the superpower had limitations. Out of the thousands of animals on Earth, he could only turn into maybe 5 or 6. No elephants, no giant pandas and nothing as tiny as caterpillar. The science was all over the place as were the character's clothes. How did they disappear and come back again?

Rewatched a few clips and I winced with disbelief at how bad it was.