Now three episodes in, I think I have given this show all it deserves. Not that Hooten and the Lady is "bad" perse, it is just aimed at the wrong audience. If this was a show on a children's network, airing between 2-5pm it would be perfect. It has exactly that level of intelligence and dialogue and my kids (8) love it. Now if you take that same show and broadcast it at 9pm, targeted at an adult audience it does not work that well anymore. The story line is not very clever and quite repetitive. The characters are cardboard cut-outs of cartoon heroes and villains. And most annoyingly, random CGI animals tend to show up in climates and locations where we (and even an 11 year old) know they could not possibly exist. For a channel that has given us the likes of 'Game of Thrones', 'Billionaires', 'The Affair' and 'Gommorah' I think they have underestimated their audience with this one ... And just for the record, it is nothing like Indiana Jones or Romancing the Stone ... It's rushed, formulaic and with lots of ham acting never leaving the viewer satisfied, just frustrated at what it could have been as opposed to what it is (or tries to be). If this gets another season, let's hope it's for the matinée slot.
Review of Hooten & the Lady
