Where to find it: Amazon Prime
Length: Six 1-hour episodes
Synopsis: Dark thriller
Recommendation rating: 1/5
What I like about it: gave me something to shout at
What I don’t like about it: relentlessly and despicably cruel to neurodivergent children, renewed for two more seasons
Review:
The initial interest is supposed to come from the “creepy” and “weird” behaviour of a quiet kid who doesn’t express emotions in the expected way. His parents believe he has no feelings and openly refuse to love him for the first two episodes, changing their tune after he’s kidnapped. His mother takes him to psychiatrists and demands that they fix him. She repeatedly says “it’s not autism” with no further explanation, in the vain hope that it will protect the screenwriters from this deserved criticism. Like in The Babadook, I screamed all the way through at the character I was supposed to be sympathising with for the tragedy of choosing to have children and expecting them to be easy.
Aside from that, it’s a boring British crime procedural with bad supernatural horror elements and risibly hacky writing. Hated it.
Content notes (may contain spoilers): violence, child sexual abuse