Kat & Alfie: Redwater

This show is full of twists and suspenseful moments and I hope Season 2 comes along very quickly. I don't watch EastEnders, as I'm in Australia, so these characters were new people to me. As always the acting is very good with the storyline being strong. Both of course is usual in British TV series and why I prefer UK or Canadian dramas.

When they were first introduced in 'Eastenders' Kat and Alfie were fun characters, who the nation willed and wished to be together. Because of course they were trapped in a soap however they soon got ruined, and ended up with more baggage than audiences could keep up with.

This spin-off however was a chance to lose some of that and to give the characters a fresh lease of life.

Yes, it's trying a little too hard to be like 'Broadchurch', but there's a lot of like here, not least the winning performances of Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie, who seem to be enjoying the escape from Albert Square.

Will this catch on? Time will tell. For now though this is a decent enough piece of TV drama.

I'm hoping for a season 2 of this series. Set in Ireland with beautiful scenery and a family full of secrets and past and present joy and pains, so many lurking just under the surface. I would love them to delve deeper into the side stories, as well as the story of Kat and Alfie. So much to offer, and plenty of roads for the story lines to further twist and turn, as we see the history behind the choices and characters unfurled, and how it's affecting the present. Six episodes are not enough, bring it back. :)

Very like a soap. But the end is totally unresolved. It's all a bit of a prime for series 2.

You get to the end and ask yourself why did I waste my time with this.

I binged all 6 hours of this show and while it was intriguing and we'll acted, i am FURIOUS that there was no resolution of the long and twisted plot!!! Immediately after watching 6 hours of such a suspenseful and gripping drama I looked for season 2 only to discover there was none! Every story within this story was left in an unresolved cliffhanger...j HATE shows like this. Don't invest your time in watching this series... completely unsatisfying!!