Reviews

I really want to like this show because I am fond of hospital dramas. I do like it but I have to complain about the soundtrack. As soon as two or more people begin to speak, loud music immediately plays over the dialogue. It is so distracting, it spoils the enjoyment of the show Particularly irksome is the drum "music" and drum rolls they throw in over the top of people conversing. I wish someone would tell producers and directors that in real life music does not constantly play when people are talking.

The characters are likeable and there is plenty of top notch acting. Dr. Frome is particularly good. The stories are pretty interesting all round. The main character Max is a bit unbelievable in that he never seems to have a shift end and doesn't appear to sleep. He is always on hand in every department at the hospital whilst at the same time organising and reorganising just about everything in the hospital whilst undergoing treatment for cancer.

The oncologist doctor is very nice and likeable and you wish good things will happen for her. You are probably meant to dislike the ED female doctor and to wonder just how many errors she can make before somebody notices and she is called out.

I would love to recommend this show but for me it is spoiled by the irritating soundtrack.

Usually Netflix have great shows so I had no qualms about selecting this. How wrong I was!

The acting was quite simply the worst I have ever seen. The leading man had no looks, no personality and was totally unappealing. I have seen better acting in school plays.

One young guy in it was constantly turning his head from side to side to show he was confused and running his hands through his hair to denote stress. Just awful.

The lead character's wife is possibly the worst actress I have ever had the misfortune to see. Faced with her husband's infidelity she throws his clothes out of the house and screams at him "how could you do this to me?" and then goes to his lover's house and tells her what a wonderful father he is and that she forgives him.

At the crime scene, the bad actress and her equally bad husband lift the yellow tape, grab a baby and then steal the car seat from the dead woman's car and calmly drive off. Nobody stops them. Is this movie a joke?

I just wish I could give it no stars.

There was not one person in this whole mess of a movie who could act at all.

This was honestly the worst movie I have ever seen.

I watched this old movie on TV last night and did enjoy it. However, I noticed a couple of what I think are plot holes. After the woman who runs the dating agency is murdered, the police go there to question the receptionist/secretary. One wonders why she is still working there when the owner who is divorced from the suspect, is dead. Why would she still be working there, who would be paying her? Also in giving a description of the suspect, she lists his estimated weight in pounds which would never happen in England. It should have been given in stones.

I don't believe the murderer would be killing women in his own residence. Someone would surely at some time see him disposing of the bodies.

The ease which which the wrongly convicted man escapes from the prison hospital is laughable. Surely he would have been handcuffed to the bed at the very least. Also laughable was the teacup shown with all the undissolved capsules in the bottom. Would they not have floated or been felt with the teaspoon whilst stirring?

When the convicted man goes to the killer's place and bashes the blonde head with the tyre iron without checking the identity of the sleeping person, wouldn't that be attempted murder because he didn't know the woman was already dead? Also why would he go directly there which is the first place the police would look for him after the threats he made in the courtroom?

When the real killer threw the body in a sack into the back of the potato truck, the sack was tied. After he entered the back of the truck looking to retrieve his tiepin, how come the body was all mixed up with the potatoes?

The film held my interest but the above situations seemed a bit unbelievable.

Simply put, this movie was awful. It was nice to see Alan Young again having not seen him since his Mr. Ed days, but the acting throughout was dreadful. The young couple who rob convenience stores should have used the money they stole to enrol in acting school. Their so-called acting has to be seen to be believed. Also, I doubt a very old man like the grandfather character would have been so accepting of homosexual behaviour, most old people brought up in a different era, are not accepting at all. I almost choked when Ernie says to the gay guy, "your eyes dance when you talk about Lance". The fact that this line rhymed, made it even worse. His daughter's husband's lines were totally unbelievable and he said them like he was reading from the script. Most of the dialogue didn't ring true, the acting was abysmal so my advice - don't waste your time or money on this dud.

I can't believe how good this miniseries was in light of the fact that Nicole Kidman has been in some stinkers of movies since then. This is her best acting ever. One mistake I did notice though is when Kat goes through the garbage chute and is in the tunnels below the hospital, she kicks off her shoes and kicks them aside as they are impeding her progress. When she meets up with Hal in the tunnel, the shoes are back on her feet. Did anyone else notice? Wonderful story, very well acted. I thought Nicole's character was very well written and she showed an amazing strength of character considering her upbringing by her very cold mother and grandmother. Arkie's character reminds me of certain men I have observed in life who use their good looks and charisma to lure women into doing their bidding and have absolutely no feeling for these women and no remorse for the terrible suffering they cause. This miniseries will stay in your mind long after you have watched it.