i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Slow, boring & sleep inducing, waste of time, could have been done in 2 episodes instead stretched out dullness over 5 episodes. Stuck with it because I thought something must happen soon, it couldn't go on, but it did, on & on & on.......... Couldn't see the point. Much better condensed to 2 episodes. Between episodes 2 & 4 nothing really happened. Shame as BBC dramas are usually so good - generally keen to watch. Though it was going to be a bit like murder on the orient express, they were all in on it, Sadly not so exciting. Started out with hope & ended with thank goodness for that - who fancies a cup of tea. Don't bother. IMO

As others have noted, this has a Twin Peaks vibe, which is a good thing, but it also has big script problems. After taking four hours to build up the story and cast suspicion on everyone, the final hour wraps things up by introducing at least two major plot points that came rather unfairly out of the blue (the villains's motive and a supernatural bent in the finale). Had the story played fairer with the viewer, I would have liked this more. There are virtually no likable characters, and even the ones who might seem to be moral centers are not, and spending five hours with people you don't really care about is a real test of the viewer's constitution. Decent acting, certainly, and a nice mood is set throughout, but overall not satisfying.

My eyes were crossing by the third episode and I knew that there was no way to save this script. Self-indulgent acting by otherwise good actors, a script that dies quite soon after Hattie did and direction that pulled out every bit of scariness -- fish eye lenses, ultra closeups, trees waving mysteriously in the wind, scary music -- enough!! BBC is usually quite good about taking a spare three to five episodes and making for a satisfying story that would take most American series 26 episodes to complete. No more episodes would save this turkey. By the last episode, I wondered who killed the script, not who killed Hattie.

This is obviously a drama inspired by Twin Peaks and then those slew of Scandinavian dramas where things happen slowly after a murder.It also has to be noted that Kudos the production company also made Broadchurch that touches on similar themes.It's May Day and a small community waits excitedly for the parade to begin. Local teenager Linus Newcombe (Max Fowler), watches woefully as the love of his life, Caitlin Sutton (Leila Mimmack), kisses a rival. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Caitlin's twin and the beautiful May Queen, Hattie Sutton (also Leila Mimmack) travels on her journey to appear as the town's symbol of new life. However she fails to appear and the town is spinning with suspicion that she has been taken. Her twin sister thinks she has been murdered.So you have small town by the woods, people with dark secrets and a person who goes missing, maybe dead and the same actress playing the relative. So far so David Lynch!The premise is intriguing with some new age sentiments. We have a cast of characters led by Peter Firth, Aiden Gillan, Lesley Manville, Sophie Okonedo who all look like that they have something to hide and the male members in the drama all look that they are likely to be in the frame and there some downright vile people living in this town especially Okonedo's policeman husband.It just feels too slow moving. I can understand that these types of dramas need room to breath but here its just filler for its five part nightly slot and it was several episodes in before a body is found. There was too much just marking time, setting up pointless stuff which then goes nowhere. It might be bad writing thankfully the tempo picks up a bit after episode three.The conclusion might leave some people underwhelmed as it veers more to the supernatural as it builds up slightly in its spookier themes. This drama was no great shakes, it had far too many over long shots of the male characters furrowing their brows and looking worried as if to emphasise them as suspects. A little bit too clunky and clichéd outside its new age aura.