Okay, so I exaggerate a bit. It's a personal nomination for worst television series of the last 50 years. And, of course, it's only the worst television series that I've personally seen in the last 50 years. I'm sure there are worse coming out of places like ... I don't know ... Albania, but of all the series I've seen in the last 50 years, this comes right at the bottom of the list. No question about it.
Let's just summarize the nonsense and then we can all move on to something else shall we?
It starts with an empty bus of corpsicles (i.e. frozen dead men). No obvious relationship between any of them other than they all disappeared starting around 3 years ago.
The we have the appearance of the amnesiac red-headed Catherine.
Over the remainder of the first episode and into the start of the second we learn that:
1) Catherine was kidnapped 3 years go
2) her amnesia is drug induced.
3) While being held, she gave birth to a baby
4) All the dead men on the bus are her ex-lovers
5) She was forced to give up the baby
6) and then ... get this ... the reason she was forced to give up the baby was that she wasn't considered worthy of raising the baby.
I'm not giving away anything in all of the above as it all comes early on in the first episode except for one point early in the second. No spoilers there as if it was possible to spoil any of this rubbish.
Think about point 6 a bit. Forced to give up the baby because she wasn't worthy of raising the baby.
Wouldn't it have just been easier NOT to have kidnapped the baby, not to impregnate her, and then she wouldn't have had the baby in the first place so there wouldn't have been any need to save the baby by taking it from her? Geez.
So why did we continue to watch this preposterous plot?
Well, in ep. 1 and 2, my wife and I are thinking this all sounds a bit intriguing and I'm sure it will get better now that they have set the scene and we discover what is really going on. Perhaps a plot to create babies to sell on the black market? That would have at least been mildly more logical that what they gave us.
In ep 3 and 4., we're thinking this is getting ridiculous but maybe we're missing something so let's continue as it has to get better and I'm sure it will make sense soon. Series 1 was okay; series 2 couldn't be this bad, could it?
By ep 5 and 6, it's just a case of we know it's rubbish but we started so we may as well finish.
Ep 7? Well, I actually enjoyed ep. 7 I'm embarrassed to say. Decent bit of tension, mystery. Still didn't think it made any sense but at least it was mildly enjoyable.
Ep 8? Well, if the series was the 'worst series of the last 50 years', then ep. 8 was the "worst single episode of any series made in the last 50 years." Just preposterous, ridiculous, atrocious, mind-numbing, wrist-slashing, drivel. What more can one say?
Oh, and just as an aside. My wife and I are both convinced that throughout the first 7 and a half episodes, Catherine refers to the baby she had to give up as her son (en francais, mon "fils"). That's what the Engish subtitles said and that's what we heard in the french (we are both reasonably fluent). Midway through ep. 8, and it suddenly becomes "ma fille" (i.e. a girl) and remained so to the end. My wife and I both caught this and both asked each other if we'd misunderstood or missed something. We're convinced not. The writers just switched from a boy to the girl half way through the final episode. A sex-change operation on a 6 month old baby? Weird.
I could go on but what's the point. Please, please, I beg of you: don't waste 8 hours of your lives on this travesty as we did. Find something else. Anything. It couldn't possible be worse than this.