I really wanted to like the series because my mother lived through this period of the fall of Singapore but it really was so boring and predictable! It could have been so much better as the story is interesting but the acting was wooden and stilted. I did not see the need for the constant distracting and overpowering background music, sometimes jazz, sometimes traditional Chinese.
It was just so typical of foreign productions filmed in Asia., that unnecessary need to 'highlight' all the Asian elements, the scenery, the clothes, the accent etc, but the whole story is lost along the way.
So sad that a series can be this bad
Review of The Singapore Grip
