The show was decent. Slightly ridiculous some of the character's actions but it wasn't awful.
As much as I love Michael, he should have tried harder. The accent... I didn't even realise he was supposed to be English until he had to raise his voice and say a word with letter "T" in it.
Marc and Amanda are the real stars of this show. The story itself is meh.
WATCHED THIS IN THE FIRST LOCKDOWN AND TOLD MY WHOLE FAMILY TO WATCH IT AND THEY WERE ALL RELUCTANT UNTIL NOW WHEN THEY LOVED IT AND NOW CLAIM THAT I DIDNT PERSUADE THEM TO WATCH IT
Really good British drama theat keeps you interested right up to the last minutesof the last episode. I'd give in a 7/10, but if it wasn't for a very obvious character that served little purpose in the story other than to be the sinister bad guy I'd have given it a 10/10.
The charcter 'Bobby" was obviously written into the story to be the obligatory bad guy, but everything about him and his inclusion in the plot is full of holes so big you could drive a truck through. For example (spoiler alert)
1) What did the girl and boy hope to acheve by confronting him? there were other they could have confronted on theirown doorstep.
2) How did Bobby manage to drive onto the 'secure estate' with complete impunity and exit during a crisis and the cops don't even know a thing about it?
3) After parking his car and walking unseen to the house - where was all the fire-starter explosive devices? In his pockets?
4) Killing was obviously easy for him... why kidnap the girl and then only decide to kill her when the cop chick shows up? Why not kill her in the fire with the other woman?
5) How would he have cleaned up the girls brains after shooting her - in his apartment?
6) How the hell did he actually kidnap the girl? He'd have to drag her through the nosey neighbourhood to his car and then drive off the estate.
I honestly started watching this show because Micheal c hall was in it and i missed seeing him on screen .he was awesome as dexter . The show was really good im glad o watched it .its one of those shows that every episode leaves you in a cliffhanger and you just got to keep watching the next episode . The twist at the end was good I did not see it coming. I hope that there is a season 2 .
Seeing Michael C Hall in a series again made me excited to watch this, but the series is kind of a letdown for me.
The story isn't bad but everything is so rushed and I couldn't relate to any of the characters.
It just seems really unbelievable that all these weird characters exist in the UK. It kind of feels like they took an American Series and just threw in in the UK with only changing the peoples accents.
Michael C Hall is showing to be (again) he's a truely good actor, carrying all of this.
Several of the supporting actors are mediocre at best. Several of the kids are truely great though.
The series is very complicated with many characters who all have their own secret agendas.
Plottwists galore. A typical Coben's series. In many ways I enjoy this more than Fool me Once or The Stranger.
The real crime in this series is Michael C. Hall's accent
I feel that the story was sort of going somewhere but around episode 4, it just went off the rails. They show us where the missing girl is. One of the main characters gets stabbed in the most ridiculous series of events. I don't know, it just lost me at the end of the episode. Decided I didn't really care what the outcome to the story would be and stopped right there.
Well that was worth a watch with some unexpected twists and turns at the end. Didn't see some of them coming. :thumbsup_tone1: Well worth a watch.
A very good and edge of the seat mini series. Intrigue everywhere. :thumbsup_tone1: Well worth a watch.
I have a too long backlog of shows I want to watch to give this show any more time. Too basic and I cannot handle Dexter as a smirking englishman, especially as I cannot handle any smirking englishmen
What a weird choice to have the storyline about the body and family moving it around be in large parts comedy. So instead of what would've maybe worked as "Drama, Crime, Thriller" they IMO destroy the whole show and the vibe by adding Comedy.
Anyone who likes exciting crime stories is in good hands here. Great mini-series with ex- "Dexter" actor Michael C. Hall, who does his thing brilliantly again.
Exciting until the end, everyone has their little secrets ... The direction of the end result in a whole.
THE UGLY: 'SAFE'
WRITING: 50
ACTING: 75
LOOK: 80
SOUND: 50
FEEL: 60
NOVELTY: 40
ENJOYMENT: 65
RE-WATCHABILITY: 60
INTRIGUE: 60
EXPECTATIONS: 60
The Good:
It's oddly comical to watch the Marshall family try to solve the problem they have at hand, only to fall deeper into the home they've dug up for themselves.
Hall and Warren are great together, like two police officers in buddy cop movies.
Unlike other Coben crime series, Safe keeps the number of different plot strands at a minimum and develops each of them fairly evenly. All of them feel connected to the larger story.
If you stick around for the second half of the series, you'll be rewarded with growing intensity and a growing level of danger.
I like the director's decision to use extreme closeups of people's faces during emotionally intense moments. The technique captures every emotion effectively.
The Bad:
The plot feels very generic, with genre cliches and typical Harlan Coben elements sprinkled everywhere. Coupled with a sluggish pace during the first half of the series, it never feels like it truly gets going before it's over.
There are plenty of narrative shortcuts thrown into the script to save time, even when it doesn't make sense from a real-life point of view.
A bit disappointed that the conclusion arrives with little proper build-up since the series develops other plots and red herrings until the last episode. There are no real clues dropped, meaning that it's almost impossible to work stuff out as you go along.
The Ugly:
That's one of the rules of crime fiction broken.
VERDICT:
A rewarding slow-burner wanders through genre cliches and narrative shortcuts to arrive at a surprising conclusion.
60% = :heavy_minus_sign: = UGLY
I have so many things to say about this and at the same time I have nothing. Nothing really sticked for a longer time with me. Most of these characters are not relateable in any way and you will forget them on the same day you finish watching Safe. At the same time, there are things that work here.
— Zoe Chahal. O M F G how bad is this woman? How can you cast someone with these facial features, accent and overall terrible acting? Every minute with her on the screen was terrible for me to live with. Insanely bad.
— Michael C. Hall - I don't know. First episode I felt 'lied to' with his accent and everything. But further the story went I felt more of him as a concerned father scared for his daugther than our good old psychopath...
— Overall story - I bet this has to be a great book. In books you may miss some hints and then be blown away with the final results. But here we are spoon fed some things early and as usual it all builds to the finale.
— Sophie... A PLUS.
— Pete & Jojo. Both stong male characters. Especially JoJo throws in some great laughs that at some point make you feel like it's an early Coen Brothers comedy.
Overall it has a nice detective drama approach, with twists and turns in each episode. Unfortunately falls short in casting, length and few too soon reveals of the final outcome. Could've been great, comes out as pretty average.
A first try at a TV series for novelist Harlan Corben, SAFE is about a father's desperate search for his daughter who has gone missing from their "safe" gated community. Like BROADCHURCH, everyone has secrets, everyone is guilty until they aren't ... or are they? The storytelling has lots of twists and turns. Michael C.Hall (with a British accent, no less) not only headlines with Amanda Abbington but was a producer of this Netflix production. My only criticism is that this never quite escapes the fact that this is an American writer trying to set his very American mystery premise in a UK setting. We have too many great UK Crime Dramas to not notice that it doesn't quite translate. However, pay real close attention, even with all the false leads, the solution to the mystery is there to discover and, for this, I give this first season an 8 (great) out of 10. [Crime Mystery Drama]
I only started watching this because I really missed seeing Michael C. Hall in the small screen, again. I had no idea what the series was about. But the more I watched, the more I wanted to keep watching. This show is somewhat "plagued" with too many twists, I'd say. Seriously, there aren't just a handful of twists throughout the show, it feels like there's a handful of them in every single episode. I'm sure even M. Night Shyamalan would find this annoying. But the upside of it is that it keeps you glued to the screen, compelling you to want to see what will happen next.
This is by no means Dexter, but it's a nice fix for those of you (like myself) who wanted to get some more screen time from Michael C. Hall. If you can put up with the never ending twists and the somewhat ludicrous characters, maybe you'll enjoy this.
In a show packed full of twists, the most surprising of them is that Dexter goes through it all without killing anyone.
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For any watcher out there, sorry but this is a waste of time, I had big expectations cause I loved him in Dexter and now I am totally disappointed. they offered him the 9 th Dexter season and he refused to be back with this?? WTF guys..