I so looked forward to seeing this. I even bought an advance copy of the video. After "Shooting The Past" I expected another masterpiece and was eager to watch it. I was so disappointed. The story line was thin and the revelations were hardly arresting. Even the dialogue was mundane. Often a response to a line was a mere repetition of the previous one.
The characters had no depth and the story was dragged out over the 3 episodes - 4½ hours of meandering nowhere. "Shooting The Past" was a truly fantastic story and production and I have recommended it to many people, but I'm sorry, "Perfect Strangers" is not in the same league at all. Were it not for the beguiling presence of Lindsay Duncan I probably would not have waited till the 3rd episode, desperately hoping for something interesting to happen. On the strength of "Shooting The Past" I shall always watch Poliakoff, but please let the next one be substantial (and I'll forget this one)!
The characters had no depth and the story was dragged out over the 3 episodes - 4½ hours of meandering nowhere. "Shooting The Past" was a truly fantastic story and production and I have recommended it to many people, but I'm sorry, "Perfect Strangers" is not in the same league at all. Were it not for the beguiling presence of Lindsay Duncan I probably would not have waited till the 3rd episode, desperately hoping for something interesting to happen. On the strength of "Shooting The Past" I shall always watch Poliakoff, but please let the next one be substantial (and I'll forget this one)!