shanx24

What made Le Bureau one of the best shows of all time was the natural realness, the credibility of each character. No loud random music or shenanigans. Things explained well, but not as if thumping the audience with kindergarten level education.

Here, we have loud music every 5 minutes. Oh. So. Suspenseful! Characters like the psychiatrist are just plain unbelievable (the over weight American mental health specialist is a great actress in other shows like Desp Housewives, but she bombs here).

Lead spy - like a model - is hardly credible. The story is essentially the same, but the treatment is very Hollywood-esque. Hard to believe this was made in the UK.

A solid 5 out of 10, at best.

I'm all for slow burners and well made films, but I am half an hour into this one... and the story has barely even begun. A long winded gay scene has already happened, but they're still bumbling.

For all the "touching film" and "powerful punch" commentary here, I'm not sure what the others are watching, but this is one painfully boring pace.

We're supposed to dig deep into this nothingness of a narrative and find some meaningful story of depression or nostalgia, or something. Sorry, that sounds like a stretch. It's a film for people with no better option of things to watch.

The sensible commentators with the old reviews are the more authentic ones. The recent stuff just seems to be shills or bots.

"Heartwarming", not really. "Heartbreaking", yep, but not for reasons of emotional depth, more because this was a colossal waste of time. Pretentious pile of maudlin palaver.

One of the dullest shows, a morose kind of chick-flick material. No way is this deserving of an 8.4 rating. Every two minutes someone walks around totally naked. That explains the rating, I suppose, because everything else is lacking. Boring dull juvenile stories, a colossally irritating lead female character going through relationships like ligerie, all explained by adolescent angst. Palaver.. none of us had quite a lame excuse for being woefully promiscuous. Capped off with more melodrama in the form of maudlin music--Spotify has a playlist that has a slow lineup of humdrum melancholy music. A hard pass.