Having just given up on One Day after 4 episodes, the opening scene of these two on a grass bank (just where I gave up on One Day) didn't fill me with hope.
Having an Irish lead actor didn't help as another bind is the number of tv dramas that are filmed in Ireland despite the UK having left the EU. Surely, there must be UK locations that would appreciate the revenue (this seems to have been filmed in London. I suspect the money would have been more greatly appreciated elsewhere in the UK).
On the plus side, unlike other Channel 4 dramas such as Screw, Before We Die and The Couple Next Door, the cast is mainly made up of relatively unknown actors or at least not had major leads so the viewer can concentrate on the story which was intelligent and possibly engaging.
Back to the negatives and you have to ask, like several other UK dramas, why it was shown abroad before here in the UK?
The actors are obviously older than they are perceived to be in the story. If they had been cast as 40 somethings then they would be more credible.
Having an Irish lead actor didn't help as another bind is the number of tv dramas that are filmed in Ireland despite the UK having left the EU. Surely, there must be UK locations that would appreciate the revenue (this seems to have been filmed in London. I suspect the money would have been more greatly appreciated elsewhere in the UK).
On the plus side, unlike other Channel 4 dramas such as Screw, Before We Die and The Couple Next Door, the cast is mainly made up of relatively unknown actors or at least not had major leads so the viewer can concentrate on the story which was intelligent and possibly engaging.
Back to the negatives and you have to ask, like several other UK dramas, why it was shown abroad before here in the UK?
The actors are obviously older than they are perceived to be in the story. If they had been cast as 40 somethings then they would be more credible.