Review of Boat Story

A fishing boat full of drugs with two dead bodies is found on a Yorkshire coastline by the two central characters a Londoner and a local girl down on her luck which is full of potential for a great story. However everything goes downhill fast from this point. It's filmed 80 miles away from the coast in the Leeds Bradford area which makes the whole narrative nonsensical and confusing. It could be filmed in Whitby or Scarborough and the North York Moors, which would make it much better, but it isn't. The narrative dwells in the completely absurd and incongruous, it's badly researched and badly conceived and the narrative is absurdly cliched, with really clichéd characters. From a French drug Tsar to a couple of East End villains to a few corrupt clueless and incompetent cops along with incompetent & clueless wooden top Yorkshire petty villains. None of this fits, makes sense or follows any kind storyline which holds you. It tries so desperately hard to be funny but just isn't. A great story should be plausible and realistic with some elements of reality, Prime Suspect is a great example of this. This however is just boring and ridiculously bad. On a positive note, some of the acting isn't bad, however the cast is generally typecast to the point of ridicule. The series collapses because of the fact that it's so badly written and conceived, it's very predictable with dull unimaginative directing.