Before you watch Season 1, read the reviews titled "Stop the madness..." and "Dumbest Smart People." They say everything I would have written here. In summary: painfully slow, devoid of suspense, Eve Myles' overacting and obsession with her hair, her character's highly questionable mothering skills and overall goofiness, truly dumb decisions by lead characters, an 8-part series that should have been a 4-parter at most. To this I would add the most annoying moaning music score with an intermittent screeching tea pot noise in episode 1, a director's overuse of overhead shots and useless panned shots that stop the action presumably to insert artsy film frames, and a confounding reliance on strange, transparently artificial, plot devices too numerous to list here invented by a writer who needs more guidance and experience. There are only two positive things I can say about this show: the uniformly fine acting by all the actors except Myles, and the well-delineated characters of Cerys, Tom and Terry. Nevertheless, I persevered to the end because I wanted to review this and tolerable only by fast-forwarding. I was curious enough to see if the mystery was solved but the flip-flops crammed in made it ultimately disappointing. I am convinced the high-ratings reviews (really? 10 stars?) shown on IMDB were written by friends and family of those who produced this bomb.
Review of Keeping Faith
