Perfectly watchable Netflix time waster.
But.
There's a really odd bit of spectacularly lazy writing at one point.
Following the disappearance of a character's son (the son is 23), when questioned by the police about the whereabouts of his father, the mother (played by Kelly MacDonald, who is in her 40's), responds "oh he died years ago, he was old."
So he just died of natural causes then did he? More details please!
Because all I've got to work with here, with the information given, is the deeply unpleasant mental image of a teenage MacDonald doing the business with a man in his 70's or 80's! Perhaps this odd couple deserved a film of their own, surely this unlikely March to December romance was deserving a bit more scrutiny?!
Or maybe the writer was having a bit of a lazy day. "Got to figure out what happened the lad's dad. Hmm. Oh, I dunno. I'll just say he was old. That'll do."
Brilliant.
"He was old".
But.
There's a really odd bit of spectacularly lazy writing at one point.
Following the disappearance of a character's son (the son is 23), when questioned by the police about the whereabouts of his father, the mother (played by Kelly MacDonald, who is in her 40's), responds "oh he died years ago, he was old."
So he just died of natural causes then did he? More details please!
Because all I've got to work with here, with the information given, is the deeply unpleasant mental image of a teenage MacDonald doing the business with a man in his 70's or 80's! Perhaps this odd couple deserved a film of their own, surely this unlikely March to December romance was deserving a bit more scrutiny?!
Or maybe the writer was having a bit of a lazy day. "Got to figure out what happened the lad's dad. Hmm. Oh, I dunno. I'll just say he was old. That'll do."
Brilliant.
"He was old".