This is the most disgusting show I've ever watched. And I don't mean it in a good way. When I finished the great, complex, enjoyable first season, which offered good, reasonable drama with, however, an upsetting ending that displeased me and discredited the overall quality, I couldn't even imagine how worse things would get on the second season. Seriously, the cringe these five episodes made me feel were so intense I had to look away from the screen more than once, and not just because it features the most despicable characters I've ever seen on TV and film, as they really turned my stomach.
Having reached the finale, it seems the plot really stopped being realistic since decades ago. Its histrionism it´s almost offensive and it shamelessly surpasses the very definition of melodrama with deceiving and ridiculous twists. At the end, yes, it does offer a thriller and keep you at the end of your seat waiting for what you think it has to be the last contrived decision from the script, but make no mistake, this is simply bad writing, sacrificing credibility and well layered characters for the sake of sensationalism (including the most dishonest use of the cliffhanger that I didn't expect to encounter in the so-called Golden Age of TV). At least I've learnt with Doctor Foster that one cannot measure the quality of a story by how thrilled or entertained you are by it, if in the end it´s simply bad.
Review by FernandoBlockedParent2018-02-26T02:25:33Z— updated 2018-12-26T01:51:21Z
This is the most disgusting show I've ever watched. And I don't mean it in a good way. When I finished the great, complex, enjoyable first season, which offered good, reasonable drama with, however, an upsetting ending that displeased me and discredited the overall quality, I couldn't even imagine how worse things would get on the second season. Seriously, the cringe these five episodes made me feel were so intense I had to look away from the screen more than once, and not just because it features the most despicable characters I've ever seen on TV and film, as they really turned my stomach.
Having reached the finale, it seems the plot really stopped being realistic since decades ago. Its histrionism it´s almost offensive and it shamelessly surpasses the very definition of melodrama with deceiving and ridiculous twists. At the end, yes, it does offer a thriller and keep you at the end of your seat waiting for what you think it has to be the last contrived decision from the script, but make no mistake, this is simply bad writing, sacrificing credibility and well layered characters for the sake of sensationalism (including the most dishonest use of the cliffhanger that I didn't expect to encounter in the so-called Golden Age of TV). At least I've learnt with Doctor Foster that one cannot measure the quality of a story by how thrilled or entertained you are by it, if in the end it´s simply bad.