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The constant singing, every other episode, is irritating. The quality of singing does not justify putting it in nearly every episode, or doing it more than once. It honestly, ruined a brilliant show. The fact this programme is not even marketed as a musical, makes the constsnt push disappointing. I dont understand the continued need to showcase mediocre singing?

This wasn't good. I've not even finished season 2, but I'm not going to bother. I don't think the acting is good. There are some amazing child actors out there, so this young actor (Dion) wasn't good enough to fulfil a role with more that ten minutes air time. I feel terrible saying it because he's child, but this is a show so you need to be finding actors that arent wooden, or have a range in their ability. Dion was spoilt - This is the quickest way to lose your audience if they don't care about the character. Everytime he was told to do something, he disobeyed. Convenient narrative - I hate when important information is witheld from characters because it fulfils the narrative. I understand that you don't tell kids everything, but when your child's safety/life is a stake, then providing them with information (safely) that could save their life is vital. Creating a show that withholds this information, when it's not a natural human instinct to do that, just make its convenient for the plot to fulfil its fake narrative. Nicole - The acting wasnt great. She had a terrible experience at that cabin early in season one, then nearing the end of the season, when she should be taking her son somewhere safe, why take him to a place where bad stuff has already happened and take him to a place that people already know? Why wouldn't she allow her sister to tell her partner about Dion, of it meant saving her job? Why does she think herself, as a single parent, that is already really struggling and relying on many others to help with her child but half those people are in the dark about his ability. She fails to seek real help from greater sources. If her husband, who also had abilities and was an adult, couldn't save himself from the terrible evil that follows why does Nicole believe she, a powerless, struggling parent, is going to protect her child, alone from greater forces? This would never heppen, so for them to have survived more than a few days makes it unrealistic. Why does Nicole have all these people looking after her child, who she doesn't trust to tell them about his ability? If you don't trust these people they should be babysitting your child. Extremly slow - I'm not even sure where this is going. I'm still on season one, but even by episode 8, I'm annoyed at how slow the pace of this storyline is. Nothing appears to be happening and it takes several episode to fulfil a single plot point. It's pointless and seems to be a waste of time. Update - After reading all the terrible reviews, I'm going to give up now, as it's seems to be a concensus that season 2 is a bag of pants!

This review will contain spoilers! WOW, I'm gutted, disappointed and annoyed. I have READ ALL the books and love them. The first movie instalment, amazing, but this felt contradictory to everything that made the book necessary. With romance based books, you have no real plot twist, no red herrings and no fight scene, all you have is the emotional attachment. It was there in all the books (check), and the first movie (check), but unfortunately, didn't show up for this movie (it went AWOL - check). +SPOILER++++SPOILER++++SPOILER+ The emotional ties of LJ's rollercoaster situation came from the deceit from PK and the fact that JAM was there to pick up the pieces. They formed a close relationship because of the situation, the game etc All those things, most of which were removed) were all needed to make the situation realistic, rather than forced or rushed. So, when you remove it all, you get a movie like this, which felt forced and... you guessed it, rushed! As none of these emotions was built in the movie, everything that happens appears to be baseless & irrelevant. You have NO connection to the situations, as it has not been fleshed out enough to make you, as a viewer, give a c**p about all that's happening. What you end up with is characters having emotions and reacting to an invisible thing, because most of the plot is missing. Who on earth got the director's job, & decided to remove 80% of the important elements that make the base of every character's action for this movie, needs to be fired!!! If you don't have enough run time to provide 80% from the book, don't add irrelevant scenes to visually stimulate, if the vital plot will need to be removed as a consequence. Surely, that has to be the basic rules of directing? This director clearly didn't have a clue about what was important from this book from LJ's perspective, its as if her feminine emotions were purposely let on the cutting floor. To provide a comparative is like giving birth and keeping the after birth, but throwing away the baby, OR like having a bike, without any wheels. It just doesn't work the way it should!

I really enjoyed this. I'm gutted it didn't go on. The cast were amazing and everything about the story and costumes to the acting gave justice to another installation of the Brighton Storyline! I normally have reservations about prequels, but with the intermittent story from past to present, it worked really well. I was invested in this & binged it all at once. I cried a lot and felt the love emanating from my screen. I'm glad we got to see how George & Charlotte built their lives, & family together!!! This FICTION based on FACT! Well done, & please hurry up with the next installment! I found this better than season two, but I still love season one!

SPOILER - SPOILER - SPOILER -------------------------------------------------- Season 2 - Update I wondered if season two would be any better than the first, so I had a look. I should've given up after wasting the first few hours on sean one (hours I'll never get back btw). Two episodes in & I'm done! Great idea, great special effects V Bad acting, bad decisions, bad plot Like season one, this story runs on the fact no one communicates. The whole point of this story is magic, yet when mysterious things happen, magic as a reasoning behind it is rules out instantaneously. A women disappeared at the end of the last season (they threw her out the door) but was only mentioned a couple of times in passing. When people go missing, it's a talking point until they are found, one way or another, for months-years after the event. Therefore, why was this not even considered to be the main point at the beginning of this series? The Lockes' trying to figure out a way to retain their memory after 18 doesn't sound that interesting, given the enormity of all that's happened. It turns out it isn't interesting to watch either. ----------------------------------------------- Season 1 I'm not even going to make the long speechy-review this deserves, because so many other reviews have said it for me. Therefore, the only reason they got a season from this is because when anyone in the show is faced with a decision, they make the bad one. If one character from this show made the right decision, the show would've been over after 2 episodes. It's the perfect example of directing the plot through: 1) Lack of communication - coincidental 2) Fake bad decisions (any plot would cease to exist if anyone made the right decision/logical choice/common sense approach OR a decision 99% of the human population would make - also coincidental)! The boy with disabilities made better decisions than anyone & was a better actor. SPOILER My four main bugbear issues are: 1) Evil antagonist cannot take any key from any of the Locke family, yet when the crown key is found, the people who know its importance leave it laying around or abuse its use. 2) People die before, during and after, yet the only people who can hold the keys (and therefore protect them) happily leave them around - even after finding out keys cannot be taken from them! 3) The one adult that knows everything, even though a teacher (so should have a certain level of common sense), makes all the mistakes, even after watching three friends die years before, two more friends die recently/neighbours held hostage (almost killed), but still she keeps this secret for no good reason, other than the plot wouldn't work if she warned anyone about her acts and omissions! 4) Near the end, the only plot twist happened off-screen because the whole series would not have worked had you seen it on-screen when it 'supposedly' happened. In summary A flimsy, predictable premise that tried to justify the stupidity of its bland, boring, unlikeable characters. All the good actors were side characters. They should've added some aliens, a couple of vampires, & dinosaurs because they were going for the ridiculously unrealistic, so they should've just gone all out! If the only way you can make a series work, is to fthe ake stupidity of every single character, you don't have a good show! Programmes are supposed to be believable & realistic. This show is neither!!!