Even after reading the synopsis I have no idea what this is about! We appear to have a collection of characters from all the previous series who have no idea who they are. A typical example of where a series has to come to an end, but nobody quite knows how to end it.
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14 Reviews
Antiques Road Trip
(2010– )
A watchable programme amid todays usual drivel
18 February 2022
After watching an evening of awful far-fetched soaps, over-extended dramas or rubbish reality, it's a pleasant change to revert to my recordings of Antique Road Trip. Okay so I'm interested in antiques, it may not appeal to those who aren't, but for me it works - they should make more episodes. The format is simple, each week two antique dealers/ experts/ auctioneers drive around the country buying antiques and collectibles with a starting sum of £200 they the then sell their wares at auction at the end of each episode, their profit, or loss, carries forward until the final at the end of the week. Any profit goes to charity.
Ideal radio drama
12 February 2022
I am sure this would have been visually atmospheric had I been able to see most of it. The fact is it was far too dark! I know we're all supposed to be doing our bit to save the planet, but a couple of extra LED lights would have made a huge difference to the film and very little difference to the planet. By the way, whoever suggested the house was suitable to house evacuated children? Even during WW2 there was extensive scrutiny of housing - thus the whole story was improbable from the start.
Landscapers
(2021)
Potentially in poor taste
3 January 2022
Given that this is based on a true story dating back just a few years, it is potentially in rather poor taste to make it a comedy. Chris & Susan were a strange (maybe comical) pair, and it would be fair to portray them as this as the series does, but to make the authorities look like the Keystone cops with colourful language, is unnecessary. This really isn't the sort of subject to poke fun at, and it detracts from the real horrors of this, and possibly the mental state of Susan in particular.
The Gulf
(2019–2021)
The usual blend of cop drama
24 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
A dislikable female cop (the boss, of course) who in reality, wouldn't be allowed to return to work so soon after being involved a car crash (which wasn't necessary to the story) in which her husband died and she having memory loss issues. Is put in charge of a case which involves a boy, who has been missing for five years, then turns up severely traumatised. She was part of the team on the original investigation, who failed miserably to find the boy back then - even though his captor appears to be a well know inhabitant who would surely have had his grounds and out-buildings searched at the time. To add to this, it then emerges that a young girl, who nobody is aware of, or seems to know, has also been kept captive there.
I forgot to mention that the cop, Jess, also has the teenage daughter from hell and lives in a house that resembles a rubbish tip. Not the best start to a new series. Call me old fashioned but I like to know the setting, the back story, the characters quickly followed by the story and a methodical conclusion. I don't need to spend time wondering about the red herring flash backs and irrelevance these first two episodes throw in for our "entertainment".
I forgot to mention that the cop, Jess, also has the teenage daughter from hell and lives in a house that resembles a rubbish tip. Not the best start to a new series. Call me old fashioned but I like to know the setting, the back story, the characters quickly followed by the story and a methodical conclusion. I don't need to spend time wondering about the red herring flash backs and irrelevance these first two episodes throw in for our "entertainment".
The Tower
(2021–2023)
Underwhelming
15 December 2021
Good points = only 3 episodes (a miracle & a blessing these days). Bad points = flash-backs! Why? Does Vera have constant flash-backs? No. Barnaby? Frost? Linley? Lewis et al - no. Why can't we just have a story from beginning to end? Also, not one likeable character, few believable characters. Please give us well written, well cast, believable story-lines .....please!
The Winter Lake
(2020)
Needs a better script, better sound, better direction and someone to pay the electric bill!
30 October 2021
Why are so many modern films shot in the dark with such poor sound? You need a decent sound system to equalise the the sound so you can hear speech and and drop the music (especially the bass). The concept is good but delivery, as others have stated, is slow. Why did Tom have to be "emotionally disturbed" why did his mum have to look more like his sister. I managed to stay with it only because I had hoped for a good ending, it was predictable.
Terrible doesn't quite reach it!
4 April 2021
What's going wrong here?
23 March 2021
Midsomer was always a 'must see' police drama with a strong cast and good intriguing storylines. Slowly, it's turning into a farce, an unwanted comedy of the worse and most misguided kind. Why is British TV hell bent on employing idiots who want to change everything, no doubt in the name of 'revamping'? The show works (used to), it doesn't need revamping. If producers want a police comedy/farce then bring back 'The thin blue line' or create something new - don't ruin an established show
Black Narcissus
(2020)
Why do modern day programme makers insist on drawing out a story over too many episodes?
9 January 2021
As is the norm with programme makers today - they have to take a story that was a successful 1hr 40min film, and stretch it to fill a4.5 hour TV slot. This inevitably leads to almost 3hrs of needless, boring time consuming dross - on the positive side, you are thus free to go and make a cup tea without missing anything important!
His Dark Materials
(2019–2022)
Drags on f a r too long
21 March 2020
Enjoyed the first two episodes, but then, like so many adaptations and TV drama series these days, it started to drag, the plot grew confusing and I just could wait for it to draw to a conclusion - which, as each week / episode progressed, seemed ever more a distant dream. If they can make Lord of the rings as a trilogy, I see no reason why anything else can't be.
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