Writer Ryan J Brown has taken his premise of a cruise liner as a largely lawless city-state full of cooped-up people looking to escape from whatever happened to them on shore, and run with it. Subtlety is not Wreck’s strength, but it’s not looking for subtlety (see: duck mask). Cut to three months later and the girl’s brother, 19-year-old Jamie (Oscar Kennedy), has joined the staff on the ship with an underlying purpose: he’s going to find out what happened to his sister. That duff note aside, however, things soon pick up as a killer in a duck mask and a sou’wester chases a girl around a cruise ship, knife in hand. Enough portentous solo scenes in swimming pools, please. It begins with a woman diving into a swimming pool and doing a few quiet lengths, which, unfortunately, is exactly how recent seasons of Industry and The Fall began, to name just two that come to mind. There’s so much colour and energy and hormones on screen that it makes you (okay, me) feel superannuated just watching it. It stars young actors, it’s about young people being youthful and it’s chock full of heightened characters and antics. With so many ways to watch TV these days it’s rare to find a show that obviously belongs in a certain berth, but Wreck, a lurid thriller set on a cruise liner, couldn’t go anywhere other than BBC Three.
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