Blindspot

It is quite clear that Ross Kemp has the presence to be in a hard-hitting police drama of quality. It is not difficult to imagine him as a short-tempered, rough-handed detective, and, unlike many actors who play such roles, he would actually be plausible as a character who can hold his own when it comes to dealing with violent criminals.

This makes it all the more disappointing then that he is wasted in this amateurish attempt at a drama. The dialogue is bad and riddled with cliché to the point of being insulting, and sounds like it was written by school kids, and not particularly well-read ones.

The show looks cheap, and a tree could act the cast off the screen. So wooden are the actors, they could be used to make the coffins their acting careers are surely to be buried in.

The main character is a box-ticking irritant who garners no empathy from the viewer, due to her obnoxious personality and because of the narcissistic and heartless way she treats her friends. That she is motivated only by self-interest, is epitomised by her threatening to kill an innocent dog in order to extract information from a terrified woman. How are we supposed to like this person? Were the writers banking solely on the fact that she is a wheelchair user for the audience to warm to her?

This of course removes any potential tension, because you really don't care whether or not she survives

A character needs to be likeable in order for the audience to care about their plight. Instead they go with an insufferable busy-body who makes you wish the killer had done us all a favour while he had the chance, and spared us everything that followed.

Of course, it is 2023, so Ross Kemp, on the rare occasions he appears on-screen (despite him being the reason most of us bothered to tune in in the first place) portrays an incompetent man, who has to be told how to do his job by a woman - a wheelchair-using one at that.

Incidentally, it is rather telling that the only positive reviews here mention superficial things about the showcasing of disabilities, which are irrelevant as to whether or not this is a compelling and worthy story.

The 10 star reviews are very suspicious, almost as though they were written by Beth Alsbury's friends, or by those more interested in virtue-signalling than the quality so blatantly lacking in this show - and of course we get the obligatory accusations of bigotry for daring to point out how poor Beth Alsbury's acting was in this show - She would fit perfectly into Hollyoaks.

But then she was not helped by just how insufferable her character was, or by the appallingly bad dialogue, and perhaps she would fare better with a likeable character and with a script written by adults.

So bad I don't even know where to start. An absolutely ridiculous plot with a storyline so full of holes you could drive a tank through it. I mean - the whole bins thing? Seriously stupid stuff like that turned it into almost a comedy.

The acting is dire. Kemp, who is no Olivier but is a decent enough actor, must be wondering where his life went wrong if this was his best option for an acting comeback. The rest of the cast aren't good enough to get a job as extras let alone get speaking parts! The lead character is vile - obnoxious, rude, totally unlikeable which actually could have been an interesting challenge for someone who could act, but Beth whatever her name is (I suspect we won't be hearing much of it in future) is as bad as the rest of them.

The whole thing has the vibe of a midweek daytime soap. I can only assume the 9 and 10 stars are friends and relatives of the cast. I gave it 1 star as zero wasn't an option. Really so, so bad - what were ch5 thinking?!?

Take a terrible script writer, several really bad actors, one known soap actor, throw in a low budget and you get an appalling amateur boring four part series called Blindspot. I can't believe the Channel 5 production team would finance this and then having seen the finished production actually put it on tv!

I thought that many other channels shows were poor but few have reached this low a level. Even the villain wasn't that menacing and couldn't act either I'm surprised RADA gave any of the cast membership maybe a reflection of how low the younger acting profession has sunk to in recent times!

Early in the story, when the young lady wheeled herself out of danger faster than the bad guy could run, I knew the writing would not be stellar; but many of the scripts today leave much to be desired. The viewer must pay attention to the opening act to get the personalities & relationship of the main characters; Better editing may have made the story follow a bit more smoothly. I was waiting for a reason Hannah had shaved hair one year later but none was ever given.

Hannah, in my opinion, was not a likeable character, none of them were actually, but the who-done-it aspect held my attention throughout. Everyone was less than honest, forthcoming & helpful, and looked guilty and/or possibly involved at some point. Many twists & turns. I didn't expect the ending; I was glad I stuck with it.

Literally stood next to the bins in an ally, 'Wait! The bins, check the bins!' three policemen stood in the ally next to two 2 bins, 'we haven't got the resources to be looking in a bin that is literally next to us', she can't as she is in a wheel chair, 'ok we will check one of them but if we don't find a body there mustn't be any need to check the other one', next day the woman's cleaner 'Bin men are here' 'oh no there a body in one of those bins....' it's just propostuous writing. She is actually quite good and Ross Kemp is really trying to not be the character in extras.....I just can't see past it!