I got sucked into this melodrama and binge watched all of season one and half of season two in one night. It has been a bumpy ride and my feelings about this series are all over the map, just like the acting and characterization.
Gemma as "The Woman Scorned" veers wildly between being the sane dutiful wife, mother and sensible GP to being a bad-ass chick who's got her revenge game on in a big way, only to devolve into a sniveling, drunken, insecure woman with questionable ethics and crazy eyes. I don't know who this woman is, but I am quite sure I would never trust her to be my physician.
Her estranged husband, Simon, also goes through a myriad of personality changes, first as a seemingly devoted family man, then a lyin', cheatin', sniveling bastard, only to become in Season two, a smooth, mustache twirling, evil genius mastermind. Who are these people?
The one thing I am sure of is that they are both terrible parents, and should have had their poor son taken from them early on, since the first time Gemma took him for one of her hair-raising, white knuckle car rides through the winding streets of a small(ish) English village. They talk about their son constantly; the name "Tom" is spoken ad-nauseum, they steal him away from each other, stalk him and his friends, invade his privacy, and expose him to adult situations well beyond his years, and then neglect him for hours on end. He seems to spend most of his time sulkily eating his breakfast cereal in the kitchen, or lying alone in his bedroom. What a sad and depressing life this kid lives, and most of it is his parents' fault.
Add to this sad bunch is a motley group of friends and coworkers who appear to have no loyalties or affiliations and are about as fake as fake can be.A Guilty Pleasure and a Primer on How Not to Raise a Child
Gemma as "The Woman Scorned" veers wildly between being the sane dutiful wife, mother and sensible GP to being a bad-ass chick who's got her revenge game on in a big way, only to devolve into a sniveling, drunken, insecure woman with questionable ethics and crazy eyes. I don't know who this woman is, but I am quite sure I would never trust her to be my physician.
Her estranged husband, Simon, also goes through a myriad of personality changes, first as a seemingly devoted family man, then a lyin', cheatin', sniveling bastard, only to become in Season two, a smooth, mustache twirling, evil genius mastermind. Who are these people?
The one thing I am sure of is that they are both terrible parents, and should have had their poor son taken from them early on, since the first time Gemma took him for one of her hair-raising, white knuckle car rides through the winding streets of a small(ish) English village. They talk about their son constantly; the name "Tom" is spoken ad-nauseum, they steal him away from each other, stalk him and his friends, invade his privacy, and expose him to adult situations well beyond his years, and then neglect him for hours on end. He seems to spend most of his time sulkily eating his breakfast cereal in the kitchen, or lying alone in his bedroom. What a sad and depressing life this kid lives, and most of it is his parents' fault.
Add to this sad bunch is a motley group of friends and coworkers who appear to have no loyalties or affiliations and are about as fake as fake can be.A Guilty Pleasure and a Primer on How Not to Raise a Child