Fool Me Once [Netflix]

The Black Oil

Novel adaptation, with conflict and secret bank accounts. Lands on New Year's Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhC8AG8cwcc

callaway92

Watched it all with girlfriend

Atrocious acting across the board

Bad, bad show and worrying how well it’s doing!

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121585097#Comment_121585097

I watched it aswell and agree acting was poor. The ending was ridiculous - it made the whole thing pointless.

The best thing about it was looking at their nice big houses.

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Very convoluted and ham acting across the board, Sami was the only character worth watching but the rest! wouldn't recommend, pretty awful.

robbiezero

Watched Harlan Cobens Shelter and swore to never again watch one of his adaptations.

It was brutal. Sounds like that is a good call if this is shite too.

AndrewJRenko

It seems to have been made in the UK for a US audience.

No one in the UK has that kind of gun store in their basement. No one in the UK talks about 'DUI' when they mean drunk driving. No one in the UK police force talks about their boss as 'Captain'.

Michelle Keegan looked well as always, but the story line was so convoluted, it just didn't add up.

CuriosityKilledtheCat

Enjoyed a lot of Harlan Coben books but I have to say the TV adaptions do not float my boat. I didn't even get to the end of episode one of this series.

JP Liz V1

It's a hit in viewing figures

adelcrowsmel

Really disappointed with this, was expecting more and the ending really didn't work at all!!

SimpleDimple

Total scutter.

Shelga

Had heard people say it was good, watched until halfway through episode 3 and just didn’t care about any of them, couldn’t focus on it, it was so utterly ridiculous and yet also boring. Googled the ending and glad I didn’t bother sticking with it 🤣

This is it

Just finished the first episode. I'll watch the rest, the other half wants to, but it is awful. The acting is terrible, the dialogue is worse...

paulbok

The non-stop dramatic soundtrack got annoying really fast as well.

On top of the poor acting, convoluted story and daft ending.

sydthebeat

terrible terrible waste of time.

what starts of as slightly intriguing completely falls apart in the final episode

and the acting is beyond wooden.

squonk

Up to ep 6. Really struggling. It’s to show to rest get going and when it does it’s just not that interesting. I really don’t care about any of them. The plot is scuffed and not focused enough. It’s quite ridiculous actually. Usually I like these Corben shows but this is just bad. I’ll stick with it till the end but just to see if there’s any payoff. I’m not hopeful.

yerwanthere123

I don't think this was as bad as most on here are saying, but it wasn't exactly fantastic either. Overall I'd say it was fine. Perfect to watch in the first couple of weeks in the New Year if there isn't much else on, but not something I'd ever consider re-watching. 6/10.

klose

Was hooked for the 1st 5 episodes, last 3 felt a bit of a slog and it got annoying if anything. Those same couple of PTSD war flashbacks were used way too much, the step brother storyline, what was that about? The twists and guessing kept me interested by and large. Decent watch, I’ve seen worse. The police officer Sami was definitely the highlight, his partner he gets strapped with a few episodes in, an annoying lowlight.

moby2101

It was absolutely dreadful, gave up after the 2nd episode thankfully. Netflix own content is so poor apart from its documentaries

AMKC

Just watched the first episode. Absolutely dire acting. My 4 year old niece could act better than any of them. Will stick with. It's better than that other rubbish show I started called "Echo" what a dissapointment that show is.

Clareman

That was terrible but grand "in the background" fare.

squonk

Good god! That ending was just forking stupid! What an utter kick in the nads for anyone sticking with this from the start. Honesty just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse it did!

Norrie Rugger Head

The entire thing was fecking terrible. Other half wanted to finish it.

Thank fork it was a short series (felt so so long though)

squonk

Yeah I’m actually very surprised they got 8 episodes out of that. It’s probably telling that Ep 8 was only 33 minutes. They could have wrapped this all up in 4-5 episodes and had a much stronger series because things wouldn’t have gotten stretched out to stupid lengths. Mind you I say much stronger but that it would still have been crap, just less of a time waster.

rob316

Absolute crap.

So much pointless filler, the half brother storyline what was the point of that?

A double murder and the cops were beyond useless.

Would of been stronger with 6 episodes, Sami was pretty good actor, the rest? Makes Reacher look good.

I should of known when I saw Emmet Scanlan appear to turn it off, he is the worst actor out there.

archfi

Really crap stuff on Netflix the past few years and a lot of them seem to have either Harlan Coben's name or Ryan Murphy's on them.

Some money being pissed away.

rob316

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121620080#Comment_121620080

Bar the true crime and docs, they are producing absolute pony. I'm struggling to think of a good movie they made.

Agent Coulson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121620080#Comment_121620080

Harlen is making a goddam fortune over the last few years with deals signed with Sky, Netflix and Amazon.

sonic85

Just finished this and it was pretty poor. Overly convoluted and unsatisfactory endings to most of the side plots.

What was the deal with Shane - he broke into her house more than once and put a tracker on her car but to what end? I thought it was gonna come out that he was on the Burketts payroll but it went nowhere

The bit at the end where it went 18 years into the future was another pure and utter waste of time and added nothing to the story

pinkypinky

Just finished it. So terrible. It made no sense. At least 2 side plots not resolved. Fool me once, Harlan Corben, never again.