I like Michael Sheen and I admire his passion for his country and all things Welsh. So I expected better than this really because what we have here is an interesting concept which never really gets off the ground. On a personal level this has all 3 things I find most irritating: flashbacks, people having visions and the sort of deep, meaningful emotion laden conversations few of us ever really have, so I was probably destined to have issues with it.
There is clearly a political agenda going on which is not subtle at all and becomes more irritating the clunkier it gets. It's very much a "Luvvies" view of the world which, speaking as a working class person, always offends me with its patronising stereotypes and assumptions. The bit with the boat is laughable - clearly we're supposed to be thinking about the channel crossings here.
However, the notion that a revolution starts in Port Talbot, Wales is locked down and the Welsh Catcher is deployed is entertaining albeit more than a little implausible.
I think what lets this down more than anything is the characters, which are mainly quite unlikeable, and to be honest I didn't care what happened to any of them. I didn't particularly rate any of the performances and I didn't really find the characters believable either.
So I wouldn't recommend it but if there's nothing else on telly I suppose it passes the time.
There is clearly a political agenda going on which is not subtle at all and becomes more irritating the clunkier it gets. It's very much a "Luvvies" view of the world which, speaking as a working class person, always offends me with its patronising stereotypes and assumptions. The bit with the boat is laughable - clearly we're supposed to be thinking about the channel crossings here.
However, the notion that a revolution starts in Port Talbot, Wales is locked down and the Welsh Catcher is deployed is entertaining albeit more than a little implausible.
I think what lets this down more than anything is the characters, which are mainly quite unlikeable, and to be honest I didn't care what happened to any of them. I didn't particularly rate any of the performances and I didn't really find the characters believable either.
So I wouldn't recommend it but if there's nothing else on telly I suppose it passes the time.