Little Birds Season 1 (2020) Review

This show recently hit Sky and I have watched the first season of their new show Little Birds and here is my review for it. The premise of the show sees a woman who is the daughter of a rich weapons dealer go to Tangier to marry a rich man, who is hiding a secret from her. 

Main Character

Juno Temple plays Lucy the lead character and she is just functional. She does a good job of playing the bit more crazy irrational girl and when she really focuses on that it does work and she does a fine job of that. But her character just doesn't do much to make her that likeable, you never really care about her and the show does a poor job of making you understand her point of view. 

Supporting Characters

David Costabile who I mainly know from Breaking Bad plays her father and he is the best part of this show, unfortunately, he just isn't in the show that much. When he is on screen he is the one you pay attention to but yeah I just wish he had been used more. The rest of the cast did nothing for me, her husband Hugo was really weak and his character was extremley dull. Also the character of Cherifa is so over the top and honestly she did nothing for me or her plot point. The rest of the cast also feels really over acted and none of them interested me. 

Story

The story is all over the place here, I mean there isn't really a story here, especially for the first few episodes it feels like it doesn't know what to do. There also so many plot points on show and some of them aren't even completed and it makes you wonder why the hell they were even here, they introduce a mildly interesting plot point, but it wastes it and rushes it which is a let down.  

Script

The script is also really poor, the dialogue feels cheesy and over the top and for me it just doesn't work. The drama never hits the point that it should and the attempts at humour fall flat on its face, it also doesn't help that they wrote too many plots here which means none of them succeed. 

Style

The style of the show has some highlights, seeing Tangier is pretty cool and makes this feel a more unique style of show. Also the way it is shot and music that is used makes this better then it should be, but it also makes this show come across as style over substance. The style takes over from the storytelling at times and this show feels slow and that even though it is only 6 episodes it feels like the length of 10 episodes. 

Overall

Overall, this is a poor show. It aims for a more stylish show instead of one with an interesting story and interesting characters and I would avoid this show.

Rating - 3/10