No wonder most of the comments are negative. Perhaps because we need something to pass the time in lockdown we stuck with this, but the actors were let down by a pretty daft script. The worst flaw was the casting of Cody Molko as Daniel. He's a most likeable and sympathetic young actor, but there's more than a hint of the Orient in his looks: the photo of Mark with an Asian woman should have told Jodie that he was their son rather than hers, who we saw aged 4, looking Anglo-Saxon. This made Daniel's alacrity in believing he was Tom incredible. Other flaws? I never bought Jodie's brother as a QC: night-club bouncer maybe, but not a QC. Would a QC be so influential he could arrange for DNA results to be falsified? The idea that a bunch of lowlife thugs living in squalor were able to magic up forgeries of a DBS certificate and a passport was equally ridiculous. Would an academy be so desperate for staff that they'd employ Jodie as a music teacher when she had no teaching qualifications or experience? Why did Jodie's brother row Daniel to the middle of the lake, clearly intending to throw him overboard, then bring him back and lock him in a shed or container? Just because Jodie was a distraught mother would the police really let her get away with false pretences, kidnapping, the attack on Mark, stealing his car and then giving it to the head gangster as part payment for the forged passport? Having said all that it was quite intriguing and, perhaps foolishly, we stayed to the end.
Review of The Drowning
