I thought After The Flood looked like a quality murder mystery with social undertones and interesting human portraits. For most of the first 2 episodes you can still believe it. The flashy flood scenes, the creepy murder scene fools you a while until you realize the characters are little plot devices reciting things to advance the story with basic personalities. Our lead detective is of course ahead of every detective, smarter, and makes ridiculous mistakes that she has to tell her mum every second of the show. She's your typical hard at work, good hearted woman, and pregnant too. And she becomes quickly insufferable making outrageous decisions, disrespecting everyone (future baby included) around her for her own agenda.
Soon you know that the less you know about a character the more he's hiding... By episode 5 it gets just dumb, with huge plot holes regarding how people show up when the plot needs to move on or how she ends up with every clue every time. Characters will constantly sneak on important moments, or secret talks like it's a superpower.
The dialogues don't help. We're talking mid day soap opera level of chat, with the plot getting more and more impossible and stupid. I think episode 6 is almost a comedy, the scenes between the detective and her husband reaching a all time low level of mediocrity in writing, acting, and suspense. Don't expect to be wowed by the big reveals as it gets so predictable and there will always be a character to explain why something happened. And when you understand who did what, it makes even less sense how the characters behaved with our detective.
The moment the show creates flashbacks for the people even though you've been explained the plot already, it's beyond bad like a mix of Scoobidoo and Midsummer Murders.
What a waste.
Soon you know that the less you know about a character the more he's hiding... By episode 5 it gets just dumb, with huge plot holes regarding how people show up when the plot needs to move on or how she ends up with every clue every time. Characters will constantly sneak on important moments, or secret talks like it's a superpower.
The dialogues don't help. We're talking mid day soap opera level of chat, with the plot getting more and more impossible and stupid. I think episode 6 is almost a comedy, the scenes between the detective and her husband reaching a all time low level of mediocrity in writing, acting, and suspense. Don't expect to be wowed by the big reveals as it gets so predictable and there will always be a character to explain why something happened. And when you understand who did what, it makes even less sense how the characters behaved with our detective.
The moment the show creates flashbacks for the people even though you've been explained the plot already, it's beyond bad like a mix of Scoobidoo and Midsummer Murders.
What a waste.