Us (TV Mini Series) Episode #1.2 (2020) User Reviews

Fabulous drama.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 24 October 2020]

Douglas really has put his foot in it with Albie, and naturally the teen has run off, and who can blame him.

This has become such a captivating watch, the characters are so well drawn, it's so very easy to empathise with at least one of them, especially Connie, who seems a little battle weary, after years of marriage to Douglas.

Sofie Gråbøl is delightful as Freya, there is an assumption that Douglas might just leave Connie, and go off with her, someone who's seemingly a little more compatible than his free spirited wife, only time will tell.

How nice is it to see these glorious places on screen at a time where everywhere is shut up.

Funny in parts, tragic, for me, this one is a true winner, 9/10.

Episode 2

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 28 September 2020]

It's Amsterdam and Douglas thinks he can win his family over by traipsing through museums.

Albie ensures that Kat joins them in Amsterdam. An altercation at breakfast means Albie leaves his parents to go travelling on his own. Connie realises that going for this one last trip was a bad idea.

The flashbacks indicate maybe Douglas and Connie might always had been doomed. Even the young Douglas was always a little uptight.

With Douglas going to Venice to find Albie. The series seemed to have perked up a bit. It does now look a like a novel coming alive on the screen.

Maybe there will be a bit more spontaneity from Douglas as he meets a fellow guest at the hotel.

Also if you want to catch your teenage son in Venice. I would have thought you might just want to hang around Piazza San Marco, The Bridge of Sighs or outside a McDonalds.

Slow paced indeed

[studioAT · 4/10 · 25 October 2020]

The 1st episode got this adaptation off to a good start, but is now starting to look a bit stretched as the BBC try to eek 4 episodes out of it.

The "I apologise for my son" moment is well played, but the sheer amount of evidence that Douglas is a bore is stacking up against him.

A skippable episode, full of some filler moments.