Lots of mixed reviews for this show and for very good reason. It is a thriller cum modern day western and darkly comic in a Tarantino fictitious way that is is farcically over acted. Episode one series one seems to start off with a good storyline based on a newly immigrated British family into Canada. The main protagonist is Jack Worth played by Tim Roth who is an ex British Police deep undercover agent who has settled into a idyllic quiet Canadian town and is chief of police. Multiple characters come into play very quickly and the story lines shoot off in unexpected directions with unexpected consequences. If you suspend your disbelief and everything you know about law and order and life in general it can be entertaining. But if your irritated by stories like a chief of police who can gun down his own deputy on more than one occasion without anyone batting an eye then this could be for you. The show is riddled with psychopaths and sociopaths which include the chief of police and his family who only shed the merest tear when their 5 year old son and brother has his head blown off, oh hum never mind let's crack on with our Lunacy and revenge. Tim Roth seems to be able to carry a pistol in his hand constantly whether in Canada or England without as so much as a glance from the general public. It's all rather bizarre and Roths wife and daughter can be entertaining and totally irritating at the same time. If you like Tarantino with hints of Monty Python and killing eve then you have lift off. If on the other hand you want quality and substance with believable character and story then watch something different.
Review of Tin Star
