Prisons are usually hotspots for drama and thrills - not here
TeletubbiesDid it secretly want to be a sitcom? There were times when the quickfire banter between the prison officers was played for laughs. “We’ll have to keep our eyes out for anyone hanging around the cells looking suspicious,” said one officer. “It’s a prison. They all look suspicious,” quipped another.leaned towards soap opera. One subplot concerned the enigmatic paramour of Sosanya’s Leigh. Another had to do with the stop-start romance between prison officers Gary and Jackie .
Attempts to inject mystery via a storyline about an undercover police officer misfired, too. It seemed glaringly obvious which of the new inmates was the copper in disguise - the only real surprise was the other inmates failed to recognise the spy in their midst. A plot line involving a thief on the wing felt particularly undercooked. The inhabitants of C-wing were up in arms about the robber, but only the new inmate Patrick noticed another prisoner mooching about in a dubious fashion.Clichés piled up quickly. “This place is full of sharks, they smell blood,” Gary told a strangely naïve new inmate, Patrick . Patrick claimed to be an innocent man banged up for chasing a burglar.
With that subterfuge having resulted in the death of another inmate, Toby, she was now plagued with remorse . O’Donnell delivered a gripping portrayal of slow-burning guilt mingled with paranoia. But it sat uneasily against the cartoonish depiction of the prisoners as overgrown, angry children.was certainly watchable, but it needs to work out what sort of prison drama it wants to be. At the moment, it’s an unsatisfying blend of thriller and soap with occasional laughs. This clunker in the clinker is trying to be too many things at once.
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