User Reviews

I'm used to getting more from British productions, and I hope this isn't going to be the exception. I hope this isn't just going to be tawdry and sordid. So far, though, it's not looking good.

I kinda figured, going in, that it'd be a bit sordid, a bit salacious, but I was hoping for at least some kind of substance to it. I still am, tbh. Especially with Richard Armitage and Indira Varma in it.

So far, though, it's looking like just being smut dressed up in British clothes. I'll probably end up sticking it out because it's only 4 episodes, but I'm pretty sure it'll just be background noise while I do some housework or something.

Started because I really enjoyed Armitage in a handful of things but this script ruins even an actor of his calibre. There is no build up for the characters' meeting and thus no substance to their attraction or their actions. It felt incredibly uncomfortable to watch. Why would this accomplished man who seems to love his family start an affair with his son's girlfriend? We are shown zero reasons or motivations for this from either of the characters. Also the sex scene on the hardwood floor? Uncomfortable. Also I thought this was supposed to be "sexy" but it was just in and out in like ten seconds...like... what would such an underwhelming moment give either of them? No idea because the script does nothing to help us understand or empathise. Moreover, the styling of the female lead seems so... incoherent? Almost black nail polish because she is sooo secretive, or what? In a look that otherwise is skirts above the knee and an out of place bob? Seems a strange mix of "lets make her very normal. But a TINY bit goth." All totally alright if a little cringe-y, if the rest were even barely believable. Sad to see so much money wasted on nonexistent storytelling. Also the dialogue? Just plain bad, when it's there at all.

Acting is hard to judge in such a weak script.

Please adapt better books and hire better writers and showrunners.