When I saw Melissa George was going to star in a new show called Hunted I thought that will be worth watching. Let's face it she can do most everything. She can do horror, like 30 Days of Night and the Amityville remake. She can carry thrillers like Triangle and A Lonely Place to Die and, when the need arises she can handle heavy weight roles like In Treatment and The Slap. All this and she used to be in Home and Away!
So Melissa George in a spy thriller, sounds perfect. What I didn't count on was the BBC. Hunted has all the pace and leaden,un-snappy dialogue that made The Shadow Line such a runaway hit.
Melissa George plays Sam Hunter a special operative with a shadowy (they always are) espionage outfit. The opening was all sub standard Mission Impossible, but wouldn't you know it, Sam has been double crossed, although the way she dispatches her enemies makes Jason Bourne look like Jason Donovan. After the double crossing Hunted gets gloriously confusing and convoluted; with Poe faced levels of seriousness that makes Tinker, Tailor look like Two and a Half Men. It is like being dropped into a vat of molasses. Sam has a troubled past, and has flashbacks that are right out of a Touch of Cloth.
Most American shows last forty minutes, the BBC insist on inflicting the full hour on us poor viewers and Hunted could do with twenty minutes excised. God knows where this show is going with its confusion and cliches. Let's just hope Melissa George can survive the BBC.
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