What on earth was that? Someone has been watching too many murder mystery and detective type films. The only good thing was Hanssen being around and Stuart Manning being back kn TV again. It would have been a good story as a stand alone drama, but for a series like Casualty it didn't work for me.
I started off trying to view the episode as a comedy: Iain’s voiceovers were hilarious although Robyn’s were slightly worrying, is she really that vacuous? But then the focus shifted to Ethan who can be a funny character but wasn’t here, and the two guest actors insisted in playing it as seriously as possible rather than having fun playing film noir archetypes (and I spend the opening scenes going “Oh, he was in Hollyoaks, wasn’t he?”) and it’s not much fun for the audience either. I know I complain about neat endings but this one just seemed to…stop. Did Bonnie really just fly off never to be seen again? Did Clyde die or not? We see him flatlining but it’s never confirmed. What exactly were they doing that got her in trouble with the police? Riding around with machine guns robbing banks? Sadly, it seems we’re as likely to get an answer for those as we are to the question “Why do Ethan and Caleb have different surnames if they’re brothers?” And that’s before we get on to the actual mistakes, like the flashback captions being in the wrong order (Robyn’s flashback says 5 months earlier yet the situation seems to be around the time of Ethan’s second meeting with Bonnie and the incident that supposedly put her in a wheelchair happened 6 months earlier) and the scene of Ethan and Iain outside the hospital apparently being daytime. Maybe those were jokes I didn’t get, but like the Zoe Groundhog Day/Sliding Doors episode it felt like the writer was given a video of a movie and told “Do something like that”, and they just copied it without really understanding it or trying to reinterpret it for the Casualty format.
Best bits: Anything involving Dylan and to a lesser extent Iain. The hearse gag was genuinely funny and Dylan standing up to Henrik was a great moment. Plus the cheese sandwich.
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I checked on IMDB, her name is Renee Castles
Best thing in the whole episode.
They're making it like a 1940's Humphrey Bogart film. They were great, this is garbage.
I was paying attention. I still thought it was shite.
They made sense.
Indeed.
not at all - I thought it was great
Best bits: Anything involving Dylan and to a lesser extent Iain. The hearse gag was genuinely funny and Dylan standing up to Henrik was a great moment. Plus the cheese sandwich.