Sadly, this should be a gripping important drama about the abduction of a woman, but for the fact that we’ve seen it so many times in crime dramas that the impact is just too muted by the medium itself. The problem is primarily that it seems lost in genre-trading. Is it a mystery? A family tragedy?
This might have been vaguely effective if it were a TV movie, but five episodes drags us along with characters and situations that seem … well, drawn out for the sake of filling up time. The question is, ultimately, at the end of the show, do we actually care? Though well filmed, conceived, and acted, I found myself drifting off during the numerous family digressions during the 3rd and 4th episodes. By episode 5, it was difficult to understand what the point of the show was in the first place.
Obviously a BBC prestige drama, HBO got in their hands into the mix.
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