SummaryZoe Walker (Laura Haddock) travels to Ibiza to look into her brother's (Tom Rhys Harries) disappearance after his body is found 20 years later in this crime drama created by Money Heist's Alex Pina.
SummaryZoe Walker (Laura Haddock) travels to Ibiza to look into her brother's (Tom Rhys Harries) disappearance after his body is found 20 years later in this crime drama created by Money Heist's Alex Pina.
The drama has everything to keep viewers invested, turned on, and watching, potentially even in one sitting. It’s a fun, steamy escape and who would dare pass up one of those?
White Lines has been hyped as the hit of the summer, and even though it will not be the summer any of us were expecting I’d be surprised if this lurid, swirling, fantastically confident creation didn’t hit the spot. Its energetic brio and the escapism-cum-nostalgia-trip (via a soundtrack stuffed with the Happy Mondays, the Farm, Radiohead and all points in between), may be even more rapturously received under current conditions than it would otherwise have been.
"White Lines" is all aesthetics, with little underneath. It’s a beach-read that you can watch, and yes, even escape to, if a sporadically amusing romp in Ibiza sounds like a strong antidote for this weekend.
Its avalanche of ludicrous double-crosses, carnal entanglements and long-buried revelations is matched by performances that are uniformly overcooked, with no scene left wanting for furious outbursts, longing gazes, intense introspection or flashes of violence. ... There is no subtext, only blunt, simplistic text. ... But it’s rarely boring, which in the end seems to be the only real goal of this tawdry, titillating affair.
The good stuff is stretched far too thinly and The plot loses its way around the midway point. Several twists in the home stretch are highly implausible. The revival of a long-dormant drug-smuggling storyline smacks of desperation. Characters undergo personality transplants or sexuality switches. The sudden introduction of a “fight club” subplot is flat-out laughable.