The Wives (Channel 5)

[BudBaxter]

Anyone else watch this?

For a Channel 5 drama/thriller, it was pretty good for the most part, with a solid cast of recognisable faces & some suspense & mystery throughout.

But that ending. WTF were they thinking?

[Show spoiler]Pretty much everything was done. The missing woman had come back from the dead, the wrong man was in prison, we (the audience) knew who the baddie was, & it could quite easily have all been wrapped up with two or three lines of dialogue, but instead they decided to leave it all hanging & go for a (unfunny) comedy ending with someone getting pushed in the pool & everyone standing around laughing.

Cut to credits & everyone watching shouting "What The Actual ****?"

I miss the days of a single series 'one & done' thriller, but it seems like EVERYTHING these days has to end on a cliffhanger in case it's successful & they can milk another series out of it.

Not that you could call the end of this a cliffhanger. It just stopped.

If you haven't seen it yet, save yourself six hours. The ending will seriously irritate you.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by BudBaxter

Anyone else watch this?

For a Channel 5 drama/thriller, it was pretty good for the most part, with a solid cast of recognisable faces & some suspense & mystery throughout.

But that ending. WTF were they thinking?

[Show spoiler]Pretty much everything was done. The missing woman had come back from the dead, the wrong man was in prison, we (the audience) knew who the baddie was, & it could quite easily have all been wrapped up with two or three lines of dialogue, but instead they decided to leave it all hanging & go for a (unfunny) comedy ending with someone getting pushed in the pool & everyone standing around laughing.

Cut to credits & everyone watching shouting "What The Actual ****?"

I miss the days of a single series 'one & done' thriller, but it seems like EVERYTHING these days has to end on a cliffhanger in case it's successful & they can milk another series out of it.

Not that you could call the end of this a cliffhanger. It just stopped.

If you haven't seen it yet, save yourself six hours. The ending will seriously irritate you.

I haven't watched many of the drama mini-series shown over consecutive nights on Channel 5, partly because of what I've read by the critics in the daily newspaper I get (that they start well, but the conclusion doesn't live up to what came before it). There was a new drama on a few weeks ago that sounded good, called The Night Caller (about a taxi driver and radio DJ, whose cast included Robert Glenister and Sean Pertwee). But I chose not to watch it in the end. Did you see that one?

The first episode of Passenger I liked (shown on ITV1), but was put off from some negative comments on and off here. Another ITV drama, Platform 7, I did watch from beginning to end (wasn't sure about the ghost side of the story at first, but the concluding part was on the whole very satisfying).