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A Brilliant Conflict

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Three disclaimers: 1. I have nothing but admiration for Julia Stiles' talent as an actor. 2. Because of the aforementioned, and really because of the acting cast generally, I'm glued to this series 3. Dmitri Leonidis deserves special mention for succeeding in conjuring a fictional character who is literally unsurpassed in my experience for annoyingness. What a dick. Having said that, for real-life tools, Paul McGuiness has to take the gong/hammer/a good whack, anyway, for bastardising a production that should have been very special. Maybe he thinks that offending and disappointing one or two people such as Neil Jordan for instance, is trivial in comparison with the numbers of 'ordinary' viewers who may be non-offended enough to part with $. The problem is that this 'ordinary' viewer is cringing. It's genuinely mortifying hearing some of the dialogue. It's throwing me right out of the experience, reminding me that there are many idiots in the world and that quite a few of them manage to get to places where they can do real harm- in this case to the screenplay/script/whatever you call it when it's a TV series. I'd rather be writing happy positive reviews of stories I love, but the waste of talent here has me sad, and there is a need to make it known that this isn't good enough. Once again, it has to be said: If you're a smart producer, you'll be able to make a thing of high quality that the masses will love. FIND A WAY NEXT TIME, DAMN YOU.

After seeing trailers for Riviera, I was really looking forward to watching it but it's absolute twaddle. I usually enjoy thrillers, but the script for this jumps about so much that it was hard to follow what was going on. I only got through the second episode because I'd recorded it and so could rewind it whenever I needed to. I made episode 3 my last - it's just too much like hard work to watch. It's thanks to the beautiful locations that I gave it 5 stars, because without those it would have done well to get 3. Why Phil Davis and Anthony LaPaglia involved themselves in it, I'll never know - they're so much better than this.

Was looking forward to this show, but unfortunately was left deeply disappointed. Entertaining from times to times but overall story is not engaging. I struggled to finish the third episode, not even mentioning that I could not watch all 10 episodes. In a nutshell, you can see that producers spend a lot of money to make it look "expensive", but the script is poor. So not worth watching

on 1st look had the makings of a decent drama, south of f setting , Russian money man murdered etc etc, however the whole thing seemed poorly judged poorly executed and had little balance. 4 eg considering its location imagery was really poor, wardrobe was marks and sparks against supposed designer story/backdrop, casting barring the ex wife and the daughter didn't hold water, so leaves me asking where the f--- was the overall direction !!!!!! really, imo on reflection a shameful waste of a half decent budget.