Close to Me

Ecclestone is always great. Enjoyed this show. Stunning visuals. Well directed. Intelligently written.

Adapted from a Kindle bestseller it tells the story of a woman recovering from a mystery fall which leaves her without memory of the last year or so. She has to try and work out what has happened in that missing period.

Pros - a good performance from Connie Nielsen in the lead role, fairly well made and watchable and a plotline with a lots of twists and surprises.

Cons - some wobbly and stilted direction and clunky dialogue (the interior monologue device didn't work for me at all). Sadly it got a bit daft and was a couple of episodes too long for its story.

Verdict: there's a lot of better dramas out there, it felt like style over substance and by the end I'd lost interest. Average.

Really enjoyed this. Intriguing and engaging. Kept me guessing until the end.

I just ifnished watching 6 hours of this and hoping with each episode for some real drama and excitement and what did we get?

A very limp drama with no surprises and a lacklustre and unsurprising zero twist in the tale ending.

Ecclestone weak and woefully miscast and just a waste of those 6 hours for zero payoff - If this is the standard; and it seems like it is, of British Drama these days, then we had maybe better just stop making it!

Maybe I move in the wrong circles, but I don't know any family that swears as much as that one. Got on my nerves after a while. The plot started off well, but missed the mark. I haven't read the book so I don't know if it was true to the original story.