Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

whatithinkis Season 2 is a mixed-up mess.Everything mushed together and a weird feeling of repetitiveness. Like, didn't I just see this character do this in the last episode?I'd gotten through two episodes and I was about to stop watching and then it occurred to me to check directors. Viola! I see a different director for the next episode.So, before I throw the baby out with the bathwater, I thought, I will at least give episode three a chance.Fingers crossed.It was clearer and better paced but really . . . so what.Season 2 just sucks. I give up.

James Smith (Update Feb 2016: Babylon is the black comedy U.K. police drama that No Offence tried to be. Highly recommend Babylon instead of this show.)It tries to be too clever and unlike true great black comedies like Orange is the new Black, where the realistic characters get themselves into realistic but funny/stupid situations, in No Offense, we are supposed to laugh at the totally unbelievable characters in unbelievable situations.For example, right at the start we watch a petite off duty policewoman hopping out of a cab to chase a murder suspect on her own - rather than phoning it in. Later she invites a victim home to live with her family - just like that. Given the amount of victims she deals with one would expect her to run out of bedrooms pretty quickly.All of the actresses look like they would be more at home policing up the kitchen rather than a tough neighborhood. None of them look like they would last five minutes on the street. British dramas usually go with realistic character actors whereas for this series, they seem to have decided it didn't matter. Maybe they think it is part of the humour - having non-police type people playing tough police roles?This series must have a big budget because there are always many, many "extras" with police men and woman standing around everywhere.I did try and give this series a try. I even watched up to the beginning of the third episode, but alas, it remained absurd, instead of being clever, or even funny.

sol roth I'm usually a great fan of Paul Abbott's but this was ruined by terrible diction and gabbling by the actors. It may well have been the director's and author's intention at what one might call audio verité for a Manchester based drama, but Shameless was never as bad as this.Plot spoilers.All TV dramas expect some suspension of disbelief by the viewer but this is just too much.The culprit has a door key embedded in his eye by the Cathy yet we see him a little while later without a mark on his face.Cathy is imprisoned in the boot of the culprit's car yet she and Dinah escape in it and Dinah deliberately fakes a crash in it as if it were her own

vivnista I get REALLY cross when people who have a regular sense of humour watch sardonic humour and get all bent out of shape. If you do not understand original British humour, turn it OFF! No one is making you watch it! Right. The show itself is like a fly on the wall drama, much like Happy Valley. It contains the same bitching, moaning and competitiveness that is in the real world. It also shows how relationships and friendships in the workplace grow and how you come to rely on all sorts of people you come into contact with. The storyline is actually quiet dark and gripping thrown in with some absolutely CLASSIC humour such as the cleaners on the phones with their feet up! I can just imagine that happening in darkened offices everywhere! I love it and hope the show continues in exactly the same vein. The characters remind me of people I actually know, because they are real not some shiny gorgeous eye candy who cannot act. Keep them coming folks 😀