Coma

Coma is a brilliantly tense thriller, over four hours of increasing intensity, there are no loops here just escalations.

It centres around a mild mannered Jason Watkins and a single moment, tormented by just about everything and anyone he snaps and his world unravels. Pretty soon he's sitting uncomfortably in wine bars with petty gangsters and lying to the police.

It is also awful, a great set of core names wondering what they are doing here. It is filmed in Eastern Europe and that doesn't get lost - it simply looks nothing like anywhere in the UK.

Somehow this manages to be enthralling, tense and awful at the same time.

It's 4 hours - it's channel 5 - there are worse things on TV to watch!

After last weeks excruciately awful Love Rat I was hopeful that with jason watkins heading the cast ,that Coma would break the cycle of successive rubbish being served up by budget broadcasters Channel 5. Lack of finance has never stopped Ken Loach producing brilliant and relevant drama. However Coma could have been so much better in dealing with the problem of low life adolescent criminality. Unfortunately the makers of Coma chose to take the path of allowing actors such as jonas armstrong overact his part as local psycho gangster. Are we really living in the dystopian world portrayed in Coma. I don't believe so. Just remember mr Watkins to strike this one off your cv.

I was really looking forward to this drama because of the excellent cast. Jason Watkins has been consistently excellent in everything I've seen him in. The problem with this is the fanciful script. It's too silly for words. The characters aren't that likeable. Jason Watkins' character is a complete "Wally". It's hard to believe his wife would be in a relationship with him as he's so helpless.

The story became more unbelievable with each episode. I was at the stage where I was expecting them to discover Lord Lucan hiding in their garden. It could have been a really dripping story but was let down by the weak script. I love British drama but this was a big let down.

Firstly I read some other reviews just now before posting this. Some are very harsh and I think many people just expect too much. This obviously isn't going to be a big budget BBC or ITV drama, it's channel 5. Not saying it should get a free pass but the cast and crew are working on a different scale so it should be kept in mind when reviewing.

Like others I'm a big fan of Jason Watkins and he can't turn in a bad performance in my view. This show has an intriguing premise and as time goes on it does get a big bogged down in stereotypical gangster stuff but it has some decent twists and turns. A solid seven from me.

Coma is a 2024 British television drama series starring Jason Watkins and Jonas Armstrong aired on channel 5 in March 2024.

Devoted family man Simon finds his neighbourhood is terrorised by group of teenagers.

My mum watched this and said it was good.

The storyline was excellent every episode gets better and better throughout. It's a Drama with little suspense.

It certainly had be hooked from beginning to end.

Very believable as this kind of storyline can happen in real life.

You just didn't know which way the story was going to plan out.

You can easily binge watch this in weekend !!!

Acting is phenomenal !!!

Jason Watkins is a very versatile actor most things he has been in are very good to watch.

He makes you believe in the character, personality that is what you call a good actor.

All cast was good in their own way.

I was very impressed well worth the watch!!!

Why the low rating and negative reviews.

Dont anyone know what good drama is !!

You need to watch it.

Overall A excellent watch!!!

With superb acting.

If you like 4 part dramas such as the Teacher, the catch. Then you will love this much better than both of these.

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