After watching this show I just had to write a review so here's my 1st one!
I didn't know what to expect of this, I remember the music of this when I was a child and that was about it. In the first few minutes of the pilot with Lauras death I was thinking it was going to be a serious typical US 80s Knightrider type show. Boy was I wrong! The quirks of this show is its ability to use various styles of acting and get you gripped with its twists and plots of its storyline. The characters personalities are intriguing and you may soon start interests for them and wondering what will befall them next along with a lot of strange, exciting and twisted things that would happen, not forgetting the humour of which there is a lot of not all obvious. David Duchovny in his Denise outing was a source of a lot of fun!
Two things for me I found worked effectively, I was genuinely scared of that 'Bob' character, especially in one of his introduction visions where he crawls from a door over the carpet and over the sofa to Lauras mother which was very creepy even at 27yrs! The other thing was the brilliant and very disturbing piece of acting when Maddy was being beaten/raped/killed by Leyland/Bob and the switch between the two characters when she was being attacked really turned me and made me think of the reality that there are some people like that out there that get sick pleasure out of the last few desperate moments of someones life and a glimpse of what they are actually feeling. I really felt what was being put across there and it scared me..
Personally, the Laura story ended at the wrong point in the middle of the 2nd series, maybe it would have been better being a full series, apparently Frost and Lynch were forced to end it sooner than they wanted due to network pressures. Even though the rest of the episodes weren't as gripping but it still had LOADS to offer before it was snapped at its neck. Current shows that seem to regularly end after the 1st series definitely could learn something out of this wonderful piece of film.
There are lots of familiar faces from contemporary acting seen here in their earlier days, I was surprised to see Don Davis (General Hammond from Stargate SG-1), David Duchovny from X-Files, Billy Zane and the lead, Kyle MacLachlan also spring to mind. Overall one of the best and most enjoyable shows I have ever watched, including some fine acting especially by Kyle MacLachlan, and God doesn't Leyland with him evil grin just make you cringe! Favourite was Nadine for purely humorous reasons! lol
I didn't know what to expect of this, I remember the music of this when I was a child and that was about it. In the first few minutes of the pilot with Lauras death I was thinking it was going to be a serious typical US 80s Knightrider type show. Boy was I wrong! The quirks of this show is its ability to use various styles of acting and get you gripped with its twists and plots of its storyline. The characters personalities are intriguing and you may soon start interests for them and wondering what will befall them next along with a lot of strange, exciting and twisted things that would happen, not forgetting the humour of which there is a lot of not all obvious. David Duchovny in his Denise outing was a source of a lot of fun!
Two things for me I found worked effectively, I was genuinely scared of that 'Bob' character, especially in one of his introduction visions where he crawls from a door over the carpet and over the sofa to Lauras mother which was very creepy even at 27yrs! The other thing was the brilliant and very disturbing piece of acting when Maddy was being beaten/raped/killed by Leyland/Bob and the switch between the two characters when she was being attacked really turned me and made me think of the reality that there are some people like that out there that get sick pleasure out of the last few desperate moments of someones life and a glimpse of what they are actually feeling. I really felt what was being put across there and it scared me..
Personally, the Laura story ended at the wrong point in the middle of the 2nd series, maybe it would have been better being a full series, apparently Frost and Lynch were forced to end it sooner than they wanted due to network pressures. Even though the rest of the episodes weren't as gripping but it still had LOADS to offer before it was snapped at its neck. Current shows that seem to regularly end after the 1st series definitely could learn something out of this wonderful piece of film.
There are lots of familiar faces from contemporary acting seen here in their earlier days, I was surprised to see Don Davis (General Hammond from Stargate SG-1), David Duchovny from X-Files, Billy Zane and the lead, Kyle MacLachlan also spring to mind. Overall one of the best and most enjoyable shows I have ever watched, including some fine acting especially by Kyle MacLachlan, and God doesn't Leyland with him evil grin just make you cringe! Favourite was Nadine for purely humorous reasons! lol