The North Water

It's fimed... fine. It's dark and gritty but what isn't grimdark these days? It treats viewers like idiots. Everything is explicitly told to us, wasting the first half of the first episode in revealing the dark secrets. The details of the doctor's past are, by the time they decide we need to be actually shown it in flashback, boring and a further waste of time. I am surprised they kept to budget, with everyone chewing up the scenery so much. Really, really over-acted at every scene. Colin Farrell is perhaps the worst offender, and helped with an insane script. Your average Batman villain is less overt about their evil motivations. Oh, and telegraphs their moves less overtly. The degree to which several victims do not see it coming makes them appear stupid and drains the drama from the scene, and the show. The doctor is saved from death... what? Three times? Why? How is this developing his character at all? I only wish it was a little worse, so I could tell in the first episode it wasn't going to get better, and could stop watching. Annoyed I watched it all.