Frauds

Sam collects her friend Bert from prison; she's served ten years for a crime the pair committed together. Bert is out, and with cancer and limited time, she wants one last job-a big one.

I genuinely looked forward to this series. I love the cast and the premise sounded promising, but the reality is unfortunately a show that falls flat.

I'm a big fan of Suranne Jones-she knows how to lead a series, can be funny, and really connect with the audience. Sadly, here she made me want to weep years of pure frustration.

Five episodes of soap opera plots. Will they actually get the job done? Anything that could go wrong does, and as such it feels like a soap opera-you can't tell if it's 'Coronation Street' or 'Hustle'.

Credit where it's due: episodes 2 and 4 were both good, giving me hope for the eventual pay-off. Unfortunately, 5 and 6 were shocking; you can only suspend disbelief so far.

Plot holes galore, particularly in episode 6. Once you unpick the glaring absurdities and realise the twist before it's delivered, you'll be clutching the arms of your chair in total frustration.

You could watch episodes 1 and 6 and get the gist; the stuff in the middle is just filler.

5/10.

This is a fun, entertaining watch. It's not supposed to be like the Godfather or Broadwalk Empire and thank goodness it isn't, as those depress me. But, I binged this over a couple of days and found it good fun with a really good cast.

It doesn't take much thinking about, and has some silly but good moments. I'd happily watch it again.

I don't understand what all the hate for Suranne Jones is. For goodness sake grow up! If you don't like someone's work, don't watch it, and don't bother commenting to just spew negativity, purely based on your own opinion, because you don't like them, with nothing more critical than a personal attack. Move on and do something better with your time and perhaps move out of your mother's basement. She's never going to be Maggie Smith, but she's not terrible to watch.

Dire, cliche'd, pedestrian - UK TV at its worst. Awful locations considering what's available in Spain, boring plot, barely dragged out of the mire by reasonably reputable actors, doing their best with a poor scripts. I managed to get through Ep.1, trying to see what Lucy Mangan sees in it, only to give up entirely as it was so tedious.

Re viewing this after series 1 (left open for s2).

The final episode was good but if took s long time getting there.

Doctor Who transports Doctor Foster and a good Northern cast to Malaga (actually Tenerife!) for a heist which could just have easily (and feasibly) done in Manchester nicking a painting from The Lowry.

With Suranne and Jodie seemingly never off our screens, they change their hair colours for this to distract from the fact.

As with all modern dramas men (particularly white ones) are made to look foolish, weak or evil succumbing to the plotting of the main characters and the locals (particularly thd police and security staff) are treated in the same manner.

There is a twist in the tale to live up episode 6 but it's a long time getting there.

The finale improves what would have been a very low star rating despite the hype in the media around the show.

Yeah ok it's not the best heist series I've ever seen but after binge watching this I thought it was very good. Got to be aware of the people on here that are obviously trolls. Basically if they dislike an actress like Suzanne they hate everything she does regardless of the quality of the performance. Knew it would end in a sequel. I personally hope it gets one as I enjoyed it. Ignore the fun police. Some people won't find joy in anything.