jeremy-benjamin

This series passes the time, but is full of predictable, and implausible things. The last half hour, in particular, is a ticklist of bad film/TV cliches. It is set in Cornwall but filmed in Ireland, and the makers are careless with background detail and accents that betray that fact. Characterisation is mostly two dimensional, and acting mediocre. Actions taken by several characters are often some combination of stupid, implausible or self-contradictory as to their motives. Channel 5 have commissioned several series like this, and they all suffer from the same faults. For all this, it's watchable if your expectations are not high.

Imagine the worst ever story in an earthbound edition of Doctor Who, mixed in with every ill-fitting and irrelevant cliche of bad low budget sci-fi you can think of. Compound this mess with almost nothing anyone says or sees making any sense at all, or in any way leading on from the previous scene. Expect nothing to be explained properly, as all you get to see is a few repellent teenagers going around a small town in a torturously slow non-story occasionally coming across something nonsensical. Watching this had me half wondering if the pages of the script had been randomly shuffled after being mixed in with other totally different series!

The acting and production values of this series is good, but it is let down by a convoluted plot that contains many implausible motivations, actions, and coincidences.