Entre Casamentos

Imagine the pitch meeting - A Carry On script written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Snatch era Guy Ritchie. That's basically what you get in this series, a mash-up of Four Weddings And A Funeral, This Life and every murder mystery you've ever seen or read.

The Wedding Season of the title is the period during which a group of friends attend various weddings of friends and associates. At each one our hero Stefan encounters Katie and is drawn into her increasingly chaotic personal life, peaking when Katie is accused of murdering her husband and his family on ger wedding day.

Using flashbacks, what ensues is a chase across the UK and the US while Stefan and Katie try to uncover the killer or killers, evade the police, prove their innocence and stay alive. With help from Stefan's friends they gradually unravel the mystery while Stefan discovers exactly who his mystery girl really is.

The series is genuinely funny and the characters likeable. The series hinges entirely on whether or not you take to Rosa Salazar's Manic Pixie Dream Girl and if you buy into Stefan's obsession with her. We did (I watched with my parents, both in their mid-late 70's) but I can understand many who don't. We enjoyed both leads and the supporting cast and binged the whole series in two sittings, one on the day of a wedding!

The series has plenty of twists and the plot is somewhat contrived but with shortish (average 32 minute) episodes it doesn't outstay its welcome. The series does end on a cliffhanger which, if unresolved, provides an ending which is in keeping with what has gone before.

This is the perfect series for watching in one or two sessions on a winter's night and I would recommend it, just not if you're planning a wedding in the immediate future.

This show is really so good, intriguing, thematic, Great acting, fun characters, moral questions, not too too dark. It's crazy what doesn't take, there's almost TOO many good short series now that ppl miss the really good ones (although even older that really good deep scifi Netflix show with Emma stone-nobody talked about it but it was really good). Also Rosa is amazing! Loved her in maze runner-Brenda deserved more! She's like Aubrey plaza before Aubrey plaza and Jenna Ortega before Jenna Ortega. It's crazy she hasn't become more popular/famous. I hope she gets another good project.

The ending is abrupt but totally in line with the tone and themes of the entire show so it doesn't feel too jilting. I don't even think they meant it to be a cliffhanger? I think they just really wanted to end the show there purposely.

The characters were intriguing and likeable. The story had some mystery to it. The humour was amusing. The pace just about right. It kept me watching.

But then, for some odd reason, it gave up near the end. The pace got stupid fast. The disconnection with reality immense. The plot luck ridiculous. The painful plot explaining went in overdrive. Basically it just got very cheap at the end. Cheap and dumb. Making all the good episodes pointless and forgetful.

But the cast should do well from this. They deserve success. Even if the writer and director screwed up. Even if they did run out of money, the quality didn't need to dive this low.

When I started watching it I thought it was crap the main guy was bloody annoying! However after a slow start it really picked up its funny it's tense it's gripping it has some flaws but it had a lot of potential I couldn't stop watching it a lot of twists and turns a lot going on it leaves you at the edge of your seat! Give it a go it's worthy of a second season without a doubt. There's a lot of action and the cast puts in 100% more than that. The cast itself is amazing a lot of maturity as the show goes on and like I said it's slow to start with but as you carry on it quickens up and it's definitely worth it.

Stefan (Gavin Drea) objects at the wedding of Katie (Rosa Salazar) and Hugo Delaney. Katie rejects him hard and the wedding goes on. Later, the wedding party is all dead from poisoning and Katie is the main suspect. Stefan is brought in to be interrogated by the police. The duo is able to escape and goes on the run. Five years earlier, Stefan and his friends are in the midst of the wedding season. At a reception, the hopeless romantic Stefan desperately tries to save his relationship by proposing and it goes horribly. It's not too long before he falls head over heels for Katie who is already engaged.

Gavin Drea is adorably hopeless. Rosa Salazar is adorably mercurial. They are adorable together. There is a good mystery right from the start. In the present day time, the duo does separate more than I like. I really like them together. Sometimes, the premise gets a bit messy. Through it all, I love this pair. They get canceled after one season. It's a British show with little buzz and no big names. It didn't have a chance.