Even with just 4 episodes, 45 minutes long, this was torture. Almost from the outset, you could see that all that was of concern here was to try and make a variation on a story that has been done so many times that it was bound to fail.
It has attempted to be part drama/part documentary style and the second of these always fails. God knows why this won any awards.
Cliche characters abound. The bullied ex resident returns to town and surprise surprise doesn't handle the situation well. An ex SAS man comes to the rescue of his relative who is in the army and has been shot at by the gunman. An appalling cliche then runs where these two brutalise the town oddball so that he goes on a killing spree.
As for some of the victims and their stories they are just unbelievable.
The last episode takes place a year after the killing. It's not clear what has happened to the gunman who went on the killing spree so the journalist who had a meltdown in episode 3 returns to Southcliffe to have another go at speaking to people he'd said deserved to be shot. We're not told for certain whether the gunman is at large. How's that for an omission.
Avoid this like the plague. It is truly awful.
It has attempted to be part drama/part documentary style and the second of these always fails. God knows why this won any awards.
Cliche characters abound. The bullied ex resident returns to town and surprise surprise doesn't handle the situation well. An ex SAS man comes to the rescue of his relative who is in the army and has been shot at by the gunman. An appalling cliche then runs where these two brutalise the town oddball so that he goes on a killing spree.
As for some of the victims and their stories they are just unbelievable.
The last episode takes place a year after the killing. It's not clear what has happened to the gunman who went on the killing spree so the journalist who had a meltdown in episode 3 returns to Southcliffe to have another go at speaking to people he'd said deserved to be shot. We're not told for certain whether the gunman is at large. How's that for an omission.
Avoid this like the plague. It is truly awful.