Reviews

Unbelievable and clichéd right from the outset. I'm usually able to suspend rational thought and enjoy these capers as a piece of enjoyable entertainment but it's too ludicrous to bear.

Please never think that giving someone GTN spray will rouse them from a cardiac arrest. And give them a reasonable attempt at CPR before " calling it". Garbage.

Richard Armitage seems to have cornered the market in playing unbelievable and unlikeable heroes. This is not a show that should ever have made it onto a mainstream television channel. And as a vascular surgeon who is now missing in action, who is explaining his absence to the patients who've probably already been on a waiting list for a year that their surgery is being postponed??

Great cast and some genuinely funny moments but was all over the place. Mixture of slapstick and supposedly sharp social observations but just felt largely mean and hollow. And I really didn't care how things turned out.

Jonah Hill seemed badly miscast and frozen-faced for most of it. David Duchovny seemed baffled to find himself in it. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Eddie Murphy got the best lines by far, and did their best. But the overall result was uneven and unlikeable. Like My Big Fat Greek Wedding but with really annoying music and no charm.

The briefest of brief cameos by Eliot Gould and Rhea Perlman... what was the point?

I enjoyed Season One for what it was. Octavia Spencer's character a wee bit too self-riteous but the main story was good enough to carry it off.

Season Two... storyline preposterous, Octavia's character becomes a caricature, and Kate Hudson is absolutely wooden. Where did it all go wrong?

Just a great show. Character driven comedy, great acting, and real ensemble piece with nobody trying to steal the show. Got us through the Covid lockdown

I have read most Agatha Christie novels including this one. The fact that it's a new adaptation and therefore likely to stray from the original somewhat is by no means a negative thing nor indeed new. There's even a Miss Marple version previously when the Old Dear never featured in the book at all. This adaptation was stylish and good looking and was able to make what might be viewed as a slightly silly plot about spells and witchcraft into a very sinister and gripping story. Rufus Sewell was marvellous and the clothes and settings were divine. I think Agatha would be proud to know her works are being reinvented for new audiences so stop with all the bleating

After 30 minutes it appeared this film was not going to get any better so I abandoned it. It was clichéd with terrible dialogue and acting was worse. The best bit was watching an extra in the background of a restaurant scene who looked genuinely bewildered to be there. Me too! The worst thing is that this came up on my Netflix recommendations for me... I'm insulted.

I'm not a Dickens devotee so quite happy to see a retelling of this tale which was lively and funny but without losing the awfulness of Victorian poverty. Some wonderful and subtle performances from Ben Wishaw, Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie in particular. Lovely to look at too. Worth seeing at the cinema as will lose something on smaller screen

Core of story was good and initially gripping as the real truths started to unfold. But too many inaccuracies and holes in the plot eventually started to grate and became a distraction.

Did a great job of balancing the tragedies these children had endured against the well-meaning but often shockingly clumsy and insensitive attempts of the professionals at the centre to help them. Nobody could really understand what these children had lived through at first but the film dealt with this subtly. This film adds another interesting angle to the telling of the Holocaust story.