This show has plenty of icing but very little cake. Shot in the French Alps this series has the needed resources to become a classic. Trouble is the writing is adolescent as directed, the camera work save the beautiful background scenery is stolid, lacking any life and there are all sorts of silly camera mistakes that only a neophyte director/editor would miss. MD needs some Hitchcock to raise the level of drama and suspense.
While the actors for the most part seem perfectly capable of delivering captivating and thrilling performances, the direction is worse than a bad soap opera. There's no life, no style, no grace in the camera movement or angles. This was shot like a low budget tv commercial. It's really a shame because as I said, everything is in place to make something special if they'd just brought in a better director and editor.
This show annoyed me to no end except the voluptuous beauty of the high Alps with its jagged snow covered mountains, luscious evergreen valleys, sumptuous alpine meadows and clear mountain streams of melting glacier ice. I'll keep watching for that beauty with the hope that these talented actors will get the artistic direction they deserve because all these elements afford them the chance to stretch their legs and get on with some truly creative and exciting film making.
The 6 star rating I gave it indicates the lack of quality tv series available.
