oof, I really disliked last night's episode.
I know it's edited. I know a narrative is being constructed for us, but as far as possible, I don't want to see the strings.
Last year they did such a good job with the story. Perhaps they have less material to work with or the cast isn't as good, but the whole painting thing was so poorly done. It seemed pretty obvious they had filmed Minah and Linda after everyone had gone and then cut in people randomly wandering up and down corridors feeding them one-liners such as 'where's the bar' etc....It served to give absolutely no tension and make everyone seem complicit in a charade for the viewers. They even cut to an end-of-evening shot with Freddie and co sitting in the library as if they'd been there all night. Which they probably had.
Then, the writing on the painting was so scrappy. If you're going to have a peacock pen prop, at least stick a sharpie or a decent fineliner on the end rather than the half-inked biro lying at the bottom of your pencil case.
Then that stupid gloop game which didn't make sense. So Claudia says 'you don't have to tell anybody blah blah...' and then she dobs Lisa in it anway. Just because Lisa denyed choosing, so the producers can signpost to the thickos - ooooh Lisa does lying!
And finally - finally! That stupid card game. Playing a card game is tedious enough, so watching others play is beyond boring. It's like listening to other people's dreams. Or things people's cats do.
When Claudia said 'let's play DeathMatch' she might as well have said 'let's play NumberWang.' (tbh that would have been more entertaining.
Phew. rant over. (Ab. So. Lute. Lee).