User Reviews

I'm sad to see that the rating so far is not higher. I do not agree with some of the reviews in here saying it has a simplistic portrayal of men and women (being all bad/good.)

This is a major spoiler but to get to the heart of it: Rob (especially because of the ep. Showing his point of view) was portrayed in a nuanced way and I really felt a lot of sympathy for him. I understood why he cheated but the main lesson, as I see it, was that he (and her father) tried to kill their spouse. That is a very extreme thing to do and therefore not something you can recover from as a couple (or in any kind of relation.) I think they show the effect of such an action really well (also how it had affected her as a child witnessing that, ex hurting herself afterwards.) And it should make the audience wonder why.. why did he feel entitled to do that?

But of course there is a lot more to the show than that, so it would be a shame reducing it to that.. the tension, build up, drama etc worked really well overall. And I liked getting some new insights into head trauma, dementia, menopause, grieving a child and couples at this stage in life. There are several nice men in the show, not-so-nice women, and the main characters being both bad and good at different times (like real human beings.) It's up there with some of the really good British dramas so I hope people will give it a shot despite the rating.

Really did not like the main characters. The woman is hysterical, crying, screaming, over dramatical. The husband seems mean, but his wife is impossible to live with. The only thing I felt really sad about was the dog dying.

A woman wakes up with amnesisa having fallen down the stairs. Could her defensive, inadequate, control-freak of a husband have had anything to do with it? Unsurprisingly, in 'Close to Me', the answer turns out to be "yes". But it's a strange sort of drama, in which the truth is clearly suspected before it is revealed to either character or viewer. Amnesia opens many opportunities to tell intriguing (albeit preposterous stories): just think of 'Momento'. But there are no real twists here, just one long painful reveal.

Far too long and drawn out. The leads have as much charm as a loaf of mouldy bread and no one in their right mind would even remotely think of having an affair with Christopher Eccelston. The story jumps around like a frog trapped in a plastic bag and you cannot connect with any of these disjointed people.