Pam Brew

Dreadful ... one star is for the pretty locations but the show is so jaded. If you go back and watch the Ben Miller series when the characters were interesting and the murders interesting you will see the contrast. This series is poorly acted with weak scripts and storylines. I particularly dislike the set piece discussion scenes where each of the police officers gets 2 lines...that's not how conversation go in the real world. Ralf little has no charisma and the cast have limited genuine team-ness. The spin off with Kris Marshall is a hundred times more engaging.

This could have been a great show....great locations, good cast, nice production. But the stories are woeful: predictable and twee. Fine if you just want to slump in front of the tv and not be challenged to think about what you're watching. I thought tv detecting couldn't get any worse than death in paradise but at least they have the legitimacy of being an actual police force, when watching this I just keep thinking....wooaa! You can't do that? The police wouldn't let you do that? How are they doing that? Go on channel 5 commission another series but get some better actors (believable at least) and some quality scriptwriters.

Lovely film but it did make me cry. I'll not bother to summarise the plot as others will do that better. Lesley Manville is wonderful (BAFTA take note) and gives hope to us more 'mature ladies that we too could have an adventure. Very nicely acted from the whole cast. Particularly liked some of the smaller parts shown to be multi dimensional such as Roxanne Duran (Marguarite) and Isabel Huppert (Claudine). One of very few films i would go back to see again.

This is an exceptional film...very Baz Luhrman in styling. It could have been a sentimental lovefest but isn't...at times it feels like a train racing towards a brick wall and you want to be able to stop it bit you can't. We all know how it ends but the journey to get there is really well mapped out. The acting is good in some cases very, very, good the singing is exceptional. Although the actor playing elvis doesnt really look like him (too modern a face) he really sounds like him, the voice, the songs and the mannerisms are scarily accurate. There were points in the performance scenes when I wanted to applaud along with the audience. Tom Hanks will get an oscar nomination for his part and it will be well deserved if he wins. Tom is usually very good at the likeable guy but here he is thoroughly dislikable. The film ends with a black screen and summary statements about the aftermath, as the final one came up the cinema choked back collective tears. All the minor parts are pretty good too.

Hating this evening's programme on houseplants. First, where is Monty? These presenters are patronising and smug. Second the items in house plant owners are interesting but not relatable...why are they all so posh? Why are there no average people with a passion for plants featured? I think I prefer the approach taken by Beechgrove of having real people of all classes, colours, etc just show us their gardens...it's just much more representative and enables aspiration without intimidation. What worries me most is that one of these presenters is being groomed to take over from Monty, if so, prepare for a mass switch off.

This seem to have really divided opinion but i loved it. Not really familiar with any of the cast but I have driven these roads and stopped off in some of these type of places... so for me the locations and the australian characters were so true to my experience. People in remote places are so helpful to strangers. Other reviewers have commented on the disjointed story but for me i liked it much better than one where the plot is laid like a trail of breadcrumbs, you have to work out for yourself what is true. I was confused by the second episode but stuck with it and certainly by the end I felt like I had been through the wringer with the cast. I also like the fact this it moved neatly between moments of horror (the killings) menace (the policewoman interviewing the truck driver) and absolute farce (the body falling into the well or the cop dumping her awful gaslighting partner). All the way through i was struggling with 'was he a good man in trouble or a bad man getting what he deserved', so the plot twist in last episode was a bit of a shocker. I dont really care about gaps in the plot as in reality ther are plot gaps in life and I don't like simple linear storylines however well told. Liked Jamie Dornan having only seen him before as a serial killer. Liked that the policewoman wasn't the stereotype beauty..(.I am so bored with us shows where I spend my time trying to work out how much plastic surgery the main characters have had). My only negative comment is that it reminded me of a show called Mystery Road but with moments of humour.

This is so poor at the moment. Pick a presenting pair and stick with them. Susanna is a professional but seems out of her comfort zone. She need a partner to spark off...love or loathe Piers he was indeed a spark. You will nebver manage to get the comfortable sofa presence she had with Bill Turnbull. I know there is a desire to grow talent and bring on new presenters but if Charlotte Hawkins was going to be a lead presenter she would be there by now. Quite like Adil Ray and he seems to be getting more confident. But Alex is neither warm nor personable, if you were going to put a weather presenter in as a presenter why not poach one with personality from the BBC such as Carole Kirkwood or Tomasz Sch.....