The Missing: not a patch on the first series

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The Missing: not a patch on the first series

October 28, 2016 - 13:07
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Every time I tune in to The Missing I get a really big shock when the missee appears on screen. Reminds me of those tweet dying Chucky doll posters for a popular horror film!

The Missing

By Angela McCluskey

Every time I tune in to The Missing I get a really big shock when the missee appears on screen. Reminds me of those tweet dying Chucky doll posters for a popular horror film! Under her eyes is getting darker by the week and for gawds sake why won't someone give her some lip balm ... Her mouth looks like the inside of a Yorkshire pudding.

And she's in a constant bad mood - I know I know. She's been living in middle earth with the butcher and a mouthy French chick but really ... Alice get it together! Oh - and another thin- of course there's the usual rumour is she or isn't she?  Hello .. um maybe a hair from a brush might solve that in half an episode and those weird staring watery blue eyes like the side of a fish - sorry but come on - she's the scariest thing on TV right now. 

I'm trying to get into it but put off by the incredibly sedentary script. Especially first episode with that poor French guy line after boring line my cat could have rustled up in her sleep. The flashbacks too ... I thought I was suddenly dropped in Homeland at one point and it actually got slightly more exciting than on all Clapham-The-Alps stuff. And Keeley - l miss glamorous Keeley- she's still got the wardrobe from Line of Duty which is so grisly all those jeans and sweatshirts and lank hair and again I'm waiting for her to punch the hubby who likes his scars so much he won't have the fixed!

What a bunch. Bring back Jimmy Nesbit and his staring mad eyes any day from The Missing 1 - so superior I'm sorry to say. I'm on episode 3 and have absolutely no idea what's going on - the therapist Chucky scene was deeply creepy. "Come on you know you liked him. You must have just a bit."

"No I don't want to talk about..."

But really maybe you miss him. Chucky gives her the look.  Then they take a make up break cause she turns up home full of confessions and face looking like she was made up in the dark.

Predictions: Jimmy Nesbit gonna come help the French guy as Cold Feet finished for a while Chucky is really a transvestite local hooker liking for a life change Keeley - get this girl a hairdryer Scar man - he needs some new clothes and an affair.

Oh wait there's a son isn't there? Well as usual he will be ignored until the truth comes out about Chucky, The French guy will just go back to France and start doing good films again. The butcher - well maybe he's a nice guy after all. There's something else - oh yes that guy she sat on the bench with Who was he or am I getting mixed up with The Fall?  If it doesn't stop raining here (as you know I'm the expat in NYC  resident reviewer) I'm gonna end up having to become a full time telly addict ! Now for episode 5 and 6 of Gilly and Paul ... Can't wait back to my iPlayer.

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Couldn't agree with you more on this, it's plain weird from start to finish and the flashbacks seem to make no sense whatsoever (to me). So she has torched herself, we still don't know what happened to alleged baby which I think might have been given to the mad butcher's wife. I may just be making that up, but that's how it feels in this show, that it was made up as they went along. Get Keeley back to Corfu I say.

You are not the only non UK fan of TV Kev, I am in Dubai.

Over and out.
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