glasgow1975

Firstly it's hilarious the featured review mocks the father's terrible wig. Which is in fact the actor's real hair... That said the American accents are indeed terrible, the twins acting is insufferable, the CGI and greenscreen has been done as cheaply as possible and it shows. There's even a talking rat for goodness sakes! It's entirely populated with clichés - cod Shakespearean dialogue, upper class twits, optimistic can do Yanks, picturesque Romany caravans and castles... Unless you're watching with kids I'd definitely skip this bad adaptation.

In the UK this was shown as 2 feature length episodes which made it drag somewhat. I imagine 4 bitesize episodes made it more palatable for the US market.

Where to start? From the terrible accents, to the complete disregard for actual protocol, they could have been excused if it was in any way shape or form, funny... it just isn't. Not satire, not laugh out loud, just completely dull, dated, and uninspired writing. Dreadful gay stereotyping thrown in for good measure.

This was a fairly predictable and poor crime drama. The show makes a big deal of being set in Dundee, yet apart from tracking shots, and a few scenes, is obviously shot in Bolton. Which immediately negates every single review here that mentions how great Dundee/Scotland looks. Laura Fraser was the best thing in this, as she often is. Vincent Regan is suitably menacing which makes the supposed reveal is pointless. The lead actress is wooden and constantly makes choices that nobody really would.

Surprisingly it's got a second series.

Oh and every review moaning about the BBC? It was made by cable channel Alibi. BBC just dumped it in to fill the Covid bare schedules.