Breakwater Lighthouse

This production is flat. The show lacks peaks and valleys. There's little spark in the storyline. Acting was okay. Direction was satisfactory. The on-location scenes were shot on a budget. The cold case room was in the basement of police HQ. That foreshadows the overall production value of the series, sorry to say. Flat. After reading some of the 5 star reviews I was left wondering if they were watching a different series.

Dialogue: it's a simplistic, unrealistic and almost comic book style. Nobody in that world talks that those characters. Production: as with so many series now, it cuts costs to the bare bone beyond hiring a star lead, Knightly. Way too much "talk," save a dimly-lit fight seen allowing for Knightly to exploit computer-enhancement to suddenly become nearly super-human. Knightly is a fine actor but she's no ex-special forces operative. Ultimately, a core element of this series is the extensive, blatant gayness between Knightly's collaborators. If you like that sort of thing you may find it acceptable, but if you don't then you could find it disgusting. Perhaps the normalization of that behavior is the point of this disappointing series.

Turned off the movie within 3 minutes. It's fake. Fake characters out of central casting. Everyone wearing beautifully tailored new clothes in a home with perfectly straight and pressed drapes, ambient lighting with wall sconces. All the actors were overly posed and each strand of hair was precisely combed. It's a farce of a movie and shows no respect to the art of film making whatsoever. Aretha is everything this movie maker is not -- genuine, unique and talented.