BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

rob-stanley 1. First review ever. 2. I picked this up seriously late. 3. What what what. I shamelessly consume TV series and particularly crime / drama. So I have some experience. This was special. Really special. Short and effective. It was brutal with its honesty. Bless the Scottish accents for some edge. Layered darkness. You need to watch and enjoy. Script and acting. Photography. All top notch. Lovely find on Netflix.

schneiderdick By midway into Episode 4, I was laughing at the intertwining secrtets - everyone has one - of adultery, murder, cover up, drug dealing, corrupt cop, two people dying (an oldster and a youngster), unrevealed diseases (Parkinson's), lying, drug use, suicides, incompetent cops, incest, Bill tossing people out of his house, infanticide, abandonment, stealing, cover-ups, confessions, burying a complete car with a dead killer inside, and affairs. I am waiting for the revelation that someone was screwing one of the farm animals. That's about all that was left. Shakespeare could not even have pulled this one off. I'm not sure if I can make it through to the end. No one edited this script, and they damn well should have.

dale-51649 The story is about a pair of newlyweds who get murdered, and their grief stricken families confusingly end up with what they think is the killer in their midst. The acting is fair and the cinematography is fairly good, however, the writing is sadly off the mark. As a baby boomer I can claim a phd in street pharmacology , and there is a cringe inducing scene in this piece that it can't recover from.. A character is a low level drug dealer, and a quantity of 25 acid hits ends up floating around. When a young teen steals a hit and drops it, she thinks she hallucinates that she can safely jump from a 15th floor or so balcony. Really? They are going to reprieve the old "thought they could fly" acid tripping thing? That went around the first time in the 60s, we didn't buy it then , and I don't think many buy it now. Oh I am not saying it NEVER happened, I'm just saying a few million boomers will tell you they saw a lot, and never saw anything like that happen, EVER. No flashbacks either, yea those are fake too. Were the writers too young to know any of this? Coudln't they ask?In real life there was a surgeon who was convicted of killing his family after claiming a band of hippies did it, and they think he also was the one who wrote "kill the pigs, acid is groovy" on the mirror. The DA knew nobody who dropped acid would ever say that, maybe he thought they could fly too.

morrison-dylan-fan After being intrigued by the BBC trailers that made the mini-series look like an Agatha Christie-inspired Noir family Drama,I decided to start uncovering the episodes,one by one.The plot:A man drives to the Scottish highlands and crashes his car.Seeing the car crashed,two families who have known each other for decades,come out on the stormy night to help him out.Never having seen the guy before,the families are taken aback,when one of their addresses is found in his coat pocket.Feeling that he might be dangerous, (and with the police unable to answer calls due to the storm) the families decide to lock him in the barn yard for the night.Coming out the next morning to get info out of the night,the families discover that during the night,one of them killed him.View on the show:Taking place against a beautiful Scottish backdrop,the Williams steam a dour Noir family drama with a brittle Agatha Christie-style Murder Mystery in eps 1 and 4,with stylishly tinted flashbacks from director William McGregor bringing the fractured nature of the relationships out of the loyal families.Whilst the cast (which includes a great John Lynch) give gravitas to the murky revelations,the Williams clip the Noir mystery tension in eps 2 and 3 by focusing on the troubled relationships between the families running dry with forced family unease that tries to cast harsh Film Noir isolation on the families,but fails to match the burning Noir anxiety cut deep into the first and final episodes.