The BBC do indeed make some excellent drama the recent Sherlock a perfect example but now and then they make programmes like The Deep. It started off quite well and gave the viewer a sense that we were in for some kind of sci-fi experience with maybe an alien or enormous sea monster. Then episode 2 came along and we found we were just in some kind of greedy Russians versus the free world trying to protect the Arctic scenario and it went downhill fast from there. How one single member of that crew would have been considered suitable for deep sea exploration is beyond me as they were a bunch of emotional wrecks led by Minnie Driver who spent more time gazing lovingly at here boyfriend rather than trying to keep her crew alive. Something in which she failed miserably at by the way.
By episode 4 I was watching just to see how ridiculous this could get and by episode 5 I was not disappointed as it trawled a depth rarely seen by the BBC and ended with one of the stupidest hours in BBC history. The Deep could have been a really good drama if someone had taken time to reason out a decent storyline instead we got a 5 hour waste of everybody's time. Some decent actors but not a shred of decent acting on display. The dialogue was banal and dull and the actions of some of the characters simply too stupid for words. The laughable final segment as they struggle to breathe and then are rescued by whales too stupid for words.
Awful does not do The Deep justice and it got an extra * for some nice scenery.
By episode 4 I was watching just to see how ridiculous this could get and by episode 5 I was not disappointed as it trawled a depth rarely seen by the BBC and ended with one of the stupidest hours in BBC history. The Deep could have been a really good drama if someone had taken time to reason out a decent storyline instead we got a 5 hour waste of everybody's time. Some decent actors but not a shred of decent acting on display. The dialogue was banal and dull and the actions of some of the characters simply too stupid for words. The laughable final segment as they struggle to breathe and then are rescued by whales too stupid for words.
Awful does not do The Deep justice and it got an extra * for some nice scenery.