I enjoyed this opening episode, and can't fault Katherine Kelly in anything she appears in. However, I found the direction to be annoying. It started with the main 2 characters, Leah and Rose, facing each other through a glass partition, obviously in a prison, but that was OK, because it wasn't apparent who was the prisoner and who was the visitor, so I'll let them off with that one. However, during the episode, they showed flash forwards to things that were going to happen. Apart from spoiling the surprise for everyone, this is just simply lazy film making. It's as if they can't trust the story to keep peoples attention, and have to keep throwing spoilers in to keep everyone interested. Why can't modern film makers just start a story at the beginning and sequentially play it out to the end?
They did a similar thing with "Nightflyers" by killing off one of the main characters in the first 5 minutes, and then spending the rest of the episode getting to that point. Needless to say I didn't watch any more of it.
Factual and reality TV program makers aren't much better either. It really annoys me when, after a commercial break, they have to recap what has happened previously! I don't have the memory of a goldfish, and am quite capable of remembering what happened 5 minutes ago!
Anyway, "Cheat" is only 4 episodes, so I will stick with it, but I reserve the right to come back and have another moan after it finishes, depending on how it all pans out.
Review of Cheat
