Aarcflick

 Pointless casting! Cowardly loyalty to a color palette! Smart people making dumb decisions! People living in amazing houses they could never afford! If you can get past all that, it's an easy-to-watch 5-hour-plus series with a reasonable twist. First, the good. Rosalind Eleazar is great, as she is in everything. However, are we supposed to believe that Steve Pemberton is a genuinely menacing criminal genius? As much as I love him, he's just not. The character Aqua looks to be about 24 and was roommates with Kat's fiancé for 4 years - 11 years ago? When she was what, 9? Brendan is supposed to be 19? It's all SO DUMB. I know it's not meant to be all gritty and hyper-realistic, but please make it a little easier to suspend our disbelief. It would make some of her regrettable decisions easier to swallow. Stars: Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, Mary Malone And look, it was wonderful about 8 or 10 years ago when we started seeing a specific color palette being dedicated...