Oh dear oh dear oh dear...
FIrst of all, Kate is gorgeous. right. That's the good part. A great premise, an intriguing and promising plot, but what a shambles of a series.
The first thing that alerted me to possible disappointment was the fact that in "Kinshasa" they are suddenly driving on the left hand side of the road - NOT! There is an aerial shot (probably stock video) of Kinshasa in which all the vehicles are driving on the right, and then suddenly, all the cars are RHD. Bad start. Yes, I know it was filmed in South Africa, but so what? They can access LHD cars in SA if needed.
Secondly, why on earth would a woman (even if she is an ex-RA captain) go wandering off into the jungle, all alone, unarmed, without even a smattering of French, no translator, into a cesspit of militia and bad guys? Not credible.
Thirdly, how come a girl child-soldier from a rural village, speaks such perfect English, when she admitted at first that her English was very basic.
Fourthly, why did Will go rogue? The loss of his daughter was tragic (hardly much to do with the story), but what was the connection to Judith (apart from being an employee); and...oh c'mon: what was Martin's connection to Georgia? And what was the incident with Emmanuel's wife's ex-husband all about? No. no no. And then the "cutesy" bits: Adidja comes back into Georgia's life as I suppose a surrogate daughter, and then the sheepdog bit at the end - really? Kinda highly predictable.
This was just too confusing, too many flashbacks, too many disjointed scenes, just realy, really poor, sloppy work.
Two good bits of casting though - I loved Peter Bello - a real bad-ass Afrikaner and his ex-wife. THEY at least were authentically crappy. The rest...uh uh. Don't waste your time.
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