Episode #1.1

Actor Andrew Buchan makes his debut as a screenwriter for Passenger. I know it wants to be like Twin Peaks or Fargo as it references Twin Peaks.

There are shots of Lancashire woodlands in the snow. A disemboweled stag. Some people protesting about a fracking site. Then some people talking loudly in northern accents like they are audition for Emmerdale or Coronation Street.

I tell you what it is not. Twin Peaks which was one of the best American shows made in the last 50 years.

Twin Peaks started with a dead body and went from there with its quirky characters and plot. Unfortunately this was a rambling first episode as it tries to set up what kind of show it is meant to be.

Here there is a missing girl, her father is soon to be released from prison. She suddenly turns up apparently safe and sound.