peter-jf

I was fooled by what must be fake positive reviews to watch this.

Thankfully I used an online streaming service so I did not waste money only some of my time on this rubbish.

The first few opening minutes were suitably atmospheric and creepy but it very quickly went down hill. The camera work was bad, so bad that most amateurs would be too ashamed to admit to filming it.

Shaky filming and jump cuts were presumably intentional but I just found them jarring and distracting. The scary bits were not scary as by the time they appeared I was bored and almost ready to give up.

I left the film running for a bit to see if it got any better, on seeing no sign of improvement after another ten minutes I gave up and came here to post this review.

If you are thinking about watching this film I would say do not waste your money or your time.

So this is a parody of 70s and 80s cop shows, I imagine the intent was to be rather like Leslie Nielsen's Police Squad , but it misses that by several miles, the gags are just not as good. I found it to be downright derivative of other, better comedy. The main interest is in remembering in which shows you first saw the plot lines and jokes. I think it was a mistake to mix tropes from both US and UK police series, the styles do not mesh well and it feels like a very jarring mash up of Starsky & Hutch, The Sweeney, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Police Squad with elements from Castle, CSI, The Comic Strip Presents, and numerous other shows. The main characters are just annoying but there are some good performances from the guest stars.

I saw the pilot episode and thought it was absolute rubbish.

It is incredible - as in totally lacking any credibility, suspension of disbelief is impossible.

I was looking forward to this but after a reasonable first few minutes it went rapidly down hill, I was distracted from the plot by the really stupid things that the characters said and did, professionals would not behave like that. I would be surprised if this show has any scientific advisers, if it does then they are being ignored. There are too many basic scientific errors and the behaviour of the characters is totally implausible, so bad that is is insulting to the intelligence. Do not waste your time with this programme. Avoid it like the plague.