**Spoiler alert**
Two stars for the cinematography and the acting which sometimes seemed over the top or off or quite peculiar!
The soft porn was totally unnecessary!
Instead they could have added an extra episode before the end elaborating on Jonathan's character a bit to have made him out a brawny assaulter in the end...some little back stories, what actually happened between him and sasha,how the mother always tried to clean after her son,how the father was utterly blind to any atrocities by his young son.....
Also,no sane person will pose that seductively,even for her life,when in a dangerous situation as being raped or to be violated with a child being in another room ....Where were her instincts as she gleefully accepted her fate? Are women supposed to be this helpless?
And,do women have to be the saints always? Engaging in an affair is death sentence...... prioritising career is selfishness....... trying to make a man out of a 25year old son is evil ...wow wow wow,such a backward portrayal in current times representing a mother in a metropolitan city as London!
And the husband could not have acted more disjointed and foolish.... opening scene treating the wife as ' oh my highness ' after awards night and then jump to the pictures being revealed....'oh you tramp and slut in the name of a wife ' ....a total 360 degrees turn around.
Also the character of Cate holds it up for 20years so as to distance herself from the memory and waits till the last episode to finally reveal it all...a great method acting I must say 🤣
No one questions the reliability of the tale or the intentions of the old man....but the society is always just one step away to criticize a career driven successful woman at the drop of a hat .... people are supposed to be so gullible 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 *slow claps*
All the expectation that builds up in the first few moments into the show crashes down a ladder due to the unbelievable premise and built up to the 'great big sob story'.
The sex scenes were really unnecessary,tbh!
But yes,there were cats everywhere though no one ever petted them! Sigh!