Last Tango in Halifax (Drama) Netflix Review

Last Tango in Halifax (Drama)

Netflix Review 

I wasn't to sure about this program. I saw it but never really took interest in it until it said new episodes, I watched the whole thing in 2/3 days and loved it. 

Alan and Celia meet up again after 60 years. They both have families of their own.  They get married and it follows their lives together. Alan and Celia are very different people, Celia is posh and lives with her head teacher daughter where as Alan isn't and lives with his daughter and grandson on a farm. 

What I liked about Last Tango in Halifax was that true love does come around again, and the fact that there is other stories along with the main storyline and that storyline doesn't get lost. 

I liked how different the families were.  Alan and his family were more 'down to earth', didn't care what people thought of them, almost relatable, where as Celia and her family were more posh and unrelateable to their counterparts.

The actors and actresses that are in Last Tango in Halifax are perfect it was brilliant casting and when I saw Nicola Walker in it and played her part as Gillian so well I liked her a lot more. She was in another show that I watched where she played someone completely different and I liked her in that but she was absolutely brilliant in this. 

For the longest time I was sceptical about watching the show because it was set in Yorkshire and even though I am from England, I am from the south and Yorkshire is way up north with a completely different accent then what I have but I got past that and sometimes I would laugh at how different the accents really are. 

Lauren

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Thirteen Review

Welcome back to my blog

Today is a review on Thirteen. A British TV show that is on Netflix. 

Thirteen is about 26 year Ivy who at the age of 13 was taken and spent 13 years  locked away. 

After escaping ivy is reunited with her family and meets with a school friend. 

She is continually questioned by the police about what happened and they discover that Ivy has lied to them about being aloud out among other things. 

Many of the actors have been in other tv shows that I've watched and I find that they have acted better in those shows. I'm not saying the acting is bad but it's not great. 

Ivy has typical Stockholm syndrome where she is still has some sort of feelings towards the man who kidnapped her. 

After a while it became super predictable. But apart from that there is nothing special about this series. I've never watched anything like it before in the aspect of someone returning after so many years but the police aspect is what you expected.  And that after not even watching all of the episodes. 

It's that predictable that two cops have tension between them. That one cop is the 'bad' cop that doesn't follow the rules. Also it was predictable that it would be Ivy as the one who would have to go after capture to release the other girl who he'd taken.  

I wanted to love this series but really I couldn't. It was just plain predictable on pretty much everything. 

It had elements of other similar police dramas all rolled into one. It just wasn't different and I like different. 

So that's it. Not a super long review or anything. 

Lauren

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Netflix || The Investigator: A British Crime Story

Welcome to another post. This is a review on The Investigator: A British Crime Story on Netflix. It's been on my list for a while to watch, and I finally watched it. 

The Investigator follows the investigation on a missing person. It follows a former police officer who is looking into the disappearance of a wife and mother in 1985

What I liked about the program was that it really goes into detail about what happened to a curtain person who had gone missing and her husband in prison for her murder.

It all unfolds over four episodes.

The first series is really strange. Carole Packman just disappears, her husband reports her missing two months later, and six months after that someone claiming to be her says she's fine. Carole's family dynamics seem really strange before she disappeared.

After she disappeared her husband replaced her pretty quickly with the woman who moved into the house beofre she disappeared.


I found it strange that now after so long that her daughter Sam wants to find out what's happened to her mum because when she first disappeared all those years ago she didn't seem to care.

The woman who took Carole's place was a bit strange. But it's understandable that she didn't want to talk.

Throughout the episodes the Investigator had been writing back and forth with the person who is in jail for the murder  and with his lover. The whole series is completely different then what I have seen before.

Amy Netflix Documentary

Amy
Netflix Documentary

I was looking for a documentary to watch. My dad had told me that it was good, but I completely forgot about it and started watching other shows. So when I came across it I decided to watch it.

It's a really good documentary of such a talent young woman, who got into a bad relationship not only with a man, who became her husband, but with drugs and alcohol.

It shows how she went from a normal as normal can be, to selling millions of records and ending up dead.

I was a fan of Amy's before she died. I remember when she got really big and liking her music before she got big. I remember getting the Frank album beofre she made it big and then Back to Black came out and she sky rocketed.

It was a documentary that shocked me.  I knew she was into drugs and all that and that her husband was a bit of a dick. Ok more then a bit of a dick. But I didn't realize just how bad the drugs were effecting her life.

It's such a good documentary, it shows her highs and lows and everything in between.


One part near the end and if you have ever seen the documentary you may know what I'm on about but she looked so sick and unhealthy.

Her dad I found to be a knob. Why would he take cameras out to a place where Amy was, while she was happy and to her clean.

She had sure a raw talent and was lived by so many and she had all these problems and people wanted too help her and it seemed as if she didn't want any help and she ended up dying.

The Fall || Netflix Drama Review

Welcome

to another post. I know I have been a bit MIA lately on here. But hey ho I am trying. Today's post is on The Fall

The Fall is a British Irish tv show that follows around serial killer Paul and police officer Stella.


Stella is called in after a spate of murders in Belfast are flung unsolved after 28 days. She puts it all together and realizes that rather then the murders all being separate they are all linked. While Paul (the actual murderer) is attacking professional women in the city. Killing them, on one occasion the victim actually survived and he had killed her brother in a violent rage after he stopped him while the one victim was unconscious.


Paul is a family man. Married with two children. He is also a bereavement Councillor. during the day and most nights he is stalking and killing women in their 30's and manipulating his teenage baby sitter. His wife has no idea that he is killing these woman. He loves his daughter but the relationship with his son isn't really explained. Even when he looses his memory he remembers his daughter but not his son.  After one killing he goes to see a victim of his that didn't die, she doesn't realize that it was him that had tried to kill her

A series of events leads Stella to realize who is the killer and they follow him and finally arrested him.

While in police custody he will not speak to anyone but Stella. Before being arrested he kidnapped an ex girlfriend and was keeping her hostage. While being interviewed he agrees to take them to the place where she is being held and while there he is shot and seriously injured.

Series three starts with doctors trying to safe his life while the police officer that was handcuffed to him was injured.


What I liked about this show was that it shows both sides. The crime and the police work. I liked how they showed that the killer had a normal adult life and did normal adult things. Like looking after his kids and having a job. But also that he is killing and is a bad person. He also has an affair with his children's teenage babysitter who becomes obsessed with him.

I like how you don't know what's going to happen. You know he's killed and you know he is bad but he also seems like a normal person.


I liked how he would go and be in places where his victims where. Like at a bar. I liked how Paul was in a situation where he was counselling one of his victims who had survived (her brother didn't) yet she had no idea who he was.


I also liked that there other story lines within the main story such as his wife's job and the sexual relations between Stella and other members of her team.

Each episode is an hour long and in that hour there is so much drama and action it's brilliant. I must admit though I was binge watching it. So much so it took me two days too watch it. (When I first wrote this paragraph series three had not yet been released. It now has and it took me less then a day to watch it)


It took me a while to get into the first episode. But as soon as they started talking and getting more into the story line(s) I started loving it.


The Hollyokas connection was kinda big in it. Not it the story line but with the actors. 4 actors were in it that were in Hollyoaks.  And at times I did want Paul's wife to yell at one of the detectives because of the hollyoaks connection. At times I found that when those two actors were in a scene together that it worked really well  because of them acting together before.


What I will also say is that I enjoyed it that much that I wanted the third season to be on Netflix. About a week later it was on Netflix which got me really exited.

The chemistry between the actors is fantastic. Each series finale wanted made me want the next series to start. So much so that before the third series was added to Netflix I actually tweeted out that I wanted the third season to be on there.

Lauren
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