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Fool Me Once (2024)
Awful, predictable nonsense.
In all honesty, I haven't watched a programme this bad since I had the misfortune of stumbling across the exquisitely awful Dead Hot.
So it came as absolutely no surprise that this was adapted from the same author's work by his daughter, who is making quite the career for herself adapting his crime novels.
The real crime is that Charlotte Coben continues to steal a living, bringing these absolutely dire productions to television. She must be stopped.
The 'big reveal' of each misguided twist and turn was truly more underwhelming and obvious than the last. What was clearly meant to be a thrilling mystery was primarily undermined by awful writing, which made every episode feel like it was being performed by the cast of Hollyoaks. Which is also criminal as Adeel Akhtar in particular is usually very good.
Don't be fooled! Hard avoid.
Death and Other Details (2024)
Words cannot express how bad this is.
My word. What can you say about this absolute mess of a show? It starts off bad but it just continues to get worse... the story, the directing, the acting, it's just awful.
Why did they insist on the incredibly awkward flashbacks where actors were trying to play the past and present simultaneously? It just did not work at all.
And it all somehow sinks to new lows the closer it gets to the truly ridiculous conclusion, by which time the 'plot twists' are so painfully apparent that you're left wishing that everyone on the ship had died in the first episode and you were left watching an empty screen for ten hours, instead of following this absolute drivel.
The only interesting part was watching poor old Mandy give up after about episode seven as he realises what an error of judgement he has made by getting himself involved in such dross.
So so bad.
Dead Hot (2024)
A complete and utter mess. Don't waste your time.
It's a complete and utter mess, following two deeply unlikeable leads who are seemingly trying to be more obnoxious than one another and both succeeding.
Most of the series is spent with the main characters shouting endlessly dull exposition at one another, to explain away unnecessary plot twists, which all serve as a pointless vehicle for quirkiness so forced that it's relentlessly disingenuous and subsequently annoying.
The team clearly thought they were making the next Utopia, even down to the heavy-handed attempt to imitate the soundtrack. They very much were not.
What a criminal waste of Penelope Wilton and Peter Serafinowicz's talents. Definitely one to avoid, lest you get duped into thinking it might actually go somewhere other than grinding to a severely unsatisfying and predictable conclusion.