It's said that the road to failure is paved with good intentions, and someone, somewhere must've thought that remaking Minder was a good idea - unfortunately they chose the wrong people to make the wrong show at the wrong time. The history of remaking old classic tv shows is littered with such flops.
The problems with this episode range from Shane Richie not having any comic timing (not that he's given any good lines to say), the minder not having any charisma, to the painfully wooden acting of the Gold brothers (more like two random guys plucked straight from the dole queue), and the dreadful, incessant background music. Being the noughties, we also get a liberal dose of pc like the smart, black female detective who runs rings around all the stupid white men, and the poor single mum being hounded by a pair of greedy property developers - hardly an original plot. As is usual these days, the writer uses a sledgehammer to drive home the message at the expense of nuance and subtlety.
Apparently 'Better the Devil You Know' is one of the better episodes of this turgid spin-off; if so then spare me the really bad ones.
The problems with this episode range from Shane Richie not having any comic timing (not that he's given any good lines to say), the minder not having any charisma, to the painfully wooden acting of the Gold brothers (more like two random guys plucked straight from the dole queue), and the dreadful, incessant background music. Being the noughties, we also get a liberal dose of pc like the smart, black female detective who runs rings around all the stupid white men, and the poor single mum being hounded by a pair of greedy property developers - hardly an original plot. As is usual these days, the writer uses a sledgehammer to drive home the message at the expense of nuance and subtlety.
Apparently 'Better the Devil You Know' is one of the better episodes of this turgid spin-off; if so then spare me the really bad ones.