The Wives

I watched this because I liked the premise of it. Three sisters-in-law, on holiday in Malta, turn amateur sleuths investigate the mysterious diseappearance of the fourth sister-in-law from the year before. They are aided and abetted by their niece (the disappeared sister-in-law's daughter) and eventually by the new girlfriend of the diseappeared lady, Turns out everyone has secrets (uncluding the theree wives) and a motive for wanting the disappeared lady out of the way. And who is the myterious stranger, the divorced wife meets via a dating app and how is he connected to the disappearance?

Although billed as a mystery thriller it comes across more as a comedy thriller or a black comedy. This does actually work well. The best part for me is the relationship between the three wives (making wisecracks, falling in and out with each other and bickering and getting themselves into scrapes). Although you're made to initially disike the new girlfriend you do eventually warm to her, especially with her outsiders aspect on the familys relationships and a lot of her out downs towards the others.

A similar attempt is made to create the same kind of relationship between the three brothers (the husbands) but they aren't as good actors and it doesn.t work as well,. Likewsie neither does having one of the brothers perpertually overseas and therefore neer seen.

And then there's the ending which I am going to just decribed as.......poor.

Entertaining, worth a watch.

I actually enjoyed this! Reading the reviews on here would have put me off, but I found it very entertaining. It was a real whodunnit and it kept me guessing until the end. The ending obviously wasn't as tidy as some people would have liked but I felt it left a door open to a second series, which I'd love to see.

The scenery was beautiful and certainly added glamour to the series. I felt the characters were well written with strengths and flaws and the acting certainly wasn't the worst by any means.

The plot had twists and turns and it certainly kept me entertained.

It's a shame is has so many poor reviews because I feel it deserves better.

This is a bargain basement C5 production shot and set in sunny Malta, which is all good. Not so good was the awful script full of stock characters and soapy scenes that we've all seen before umpteen times. This is a murder mystery, problem was I didn't care about any of the characters..

As a show it was quite badly produced and directed. Tonally it veered between comedy, murder-mystery and romcom, it certainly wasn't a thriller. The direction was a bit off with a lot of odd angles and cuts. The cheesy plinky-plonky score added nothing but irritation.

It was dull and the script and acting were well below par. One you can safely give a swerve.

Avoid this series like the plague, absolutely terrible script, unfortunately the acting is even more terrible. At no time does the plot make any sense, it seems to consist of quaffing large glasses of red wine, every other comment being about sex then a big row then everyone all friends again , and so it goes on around and around.

It takes about one minute into the first episode to realise this is a must miss, it made me miss the days of the test card being screened.

Anyway that's enough of the goods points !

The only plus side to it is that as it is a channel 5 production it means it didnt come out of license fee money.

Difficult to be positive with this series - so I won't be. Not good at all. Unnecessary sexual scenes, and foul language. A truly poor production with no acceptable finale (if you can call it that).

PLEASE don't make a follow-up series.

The idea for the series was quite good but very poorly executed. More could have been made of the local area to give a sense of connection. Too many loose ends in the final episode made for a very disappointing end.

Acting was so-so but just acceptable. A single 2 hour production would have suited better.

I've read other reviews, so readers should get the right idea about this programme and thereby avoid it.