I watched the first episode, but no more. A few years ago, the BBC started a drama called Sea of Souls. The end was relatively clearly signposted. It was surely obvious that she would do herself in at the end of it. Ann Todd as Miss Linderman is very convincing, completely caught up in the past. I liked Susan Gilmore's Anna Marie a lot, and it's odd that the star of boat-soap Howard's Way is the only one never seen on a boat! David Beames is very much the square jawed hero, and there's nothing special about the character.
This is completely blown away when he tells her to "hop in"! It's an odd choice to have a non-English actress playing Catherine, and Scandinavian Anna Marie played by an Englishwoman. In fact, in the scene where Catherine swims ashore after being shipwrecked, she flags down a car and much is made of her not being able to communicate with the driver. Not much language barrier and not much cultural difference. It could have been a pretty bit of Britain. Norway doesn't seem especially foreign, though. The scenery is gorgeous, but I believe all of Michael J Bird's writing deals with nice locations like this. The tension could have been ramped up much higher if there was not a shot of Anna Marie looking mad and wild-eyed in approx ep 3, as Catherine is walking away from her. She was too obviously mad to be a real mad person, and I twigged on that it was going to be Anna Marie shortly before the real giveaway. Saying "shall not" instead of "shan't" is writer's shorthand for madness, and Ingrid does this throughout. I spent the first two episodes thinking that Ingrid was obviously the culprit, and then realised I was only thinking this because of Ms Brychta's unnatural and bonkers performance. Ingrid is my biggest problem with Maelstrom, as Edita Brychta's performance is completely unconvincing and wooden. She's quite good in Maelstrom, especially in comparison to hopeless blonde, Ingrid. The only other place I have (knowingly) seen Tusse Silberg is in the late, lamented 90s soap Eldorado, where she plays a Swedish mother-in-law for a few episodes. I had no problem with her, and rather liked the Catherine character. Some reviews are very harsh on the lead actress, Tusse Silberg. I remembered the sinister theme music and the dolls, but soon found that trying to sing along with the theme music would give me a sore throat. I am lucky to have seen Maelstrom recently, and it rekindled so many childhood memories.
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This is a full and frank review, with spoilers, discussing the story and the ending.
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