rosemaryandthyme

Who in the hell gave this the green light to go ahead. Vile, vile characters with no redeeming features. I couldn't care less what happened to them. Males are depicted as either dripping with toxic masculinity or as a useless jelly wimp...charming eh. On one hand you have a creepy, incredibly physically unattractive bald, yellow-toothed psychotic serial killer/animal abuser, and his equally creepy ditzy wife. The other wife, married to a dimwit, useless wimp, and she is supposedly the main provider for the family is a wimp herself allowing the mutant neighbor to walk over her. This is not entertainment, this is akin to having teeth pulled. A big effyou to the production team for writing animal abuse into the story, not needed, not relevant. Vile, vile, avoid.

Series 5 - the writing is bad and the characters are a miserable lot. There is NO chemistry between the main character and her husband or de-facto or whatever he is. She's a miserable, boring, sad sack whose face would crack if she smiled, and her partner is equally annoying. Their soap drama home life is of no interest to me as a viewer and adds nothing to the story. There is the usual Caucasian sexist middle aged cop sparring with the younger female cop - yawn, seriously are these writers just churned out through the same writing schools? Are there any writers prepared to write scripts out of the mould. Modern series are doomed.

The reviews are a bit harsh - it's a shark movie so what did people expect? They had the usual stereotypes ie nice girl, bad girl, jock, joker and black guy. The shark deaths were gory and the wounds and bite marks were well done - I thought they were suitably realistic with open bloody cuts and shredded skin. The water scenes were beautiful especially as I was watching on a cold Autumn night with heating. The shark looked like every other shark we have seen in these movies but I thought the attacks did have a few exciting moments, especially one scene where the main protagonist was involved. The action was going right to the end and it was not a bad watch on a lazy and cold evening. I was surprised to find the main actress was actually British and has been in a Sister Bonaface episode.