I caught up with this creepy drama of true potential last night but even the ever reliable Keeley Hawes was unable to rescue it from becoming nothing more than a vehicle for abject misery.
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One had to ask why the racial balance of the series was so bizarrely concocted. Surely the Beeb wasn't trying to have us believe that more than half of today's social groupings are black - were they? - This was a clumsy didactic device which did no favours to a number of quite excellent performances by black actors.
We were expected to suspend disbelief and pretend that it would have taken hours before any armed police arrived to tackle two hate-filled young gunmen who were bent on massacring all the guests in a Spanish hotel hidden away on some mystery, imagined island.
The switching from the present time frame to ones from the past was as cackhanded as they usually are when managed by the directors of the current era.
Thoroughly bleak and unenjoyable. **
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