When she sleeps with a stranger in a moment of passion, a woman discovers that she was filmed on the camera, so she leads a rabbit hole of no confidence and more bad decisions.
Nowadays you can hardly switch on a dating app without feeling that you are being scammed or shattered, which is hell for lonely hearts, but heaven to scenaristers.
Technology has danger and deception in our fingertips when we are the most vulnerable. The newest to exploit the dangers of love, Tech + Voyeurism is Looking at youA six -part psychological thriller with Aisha Dee, Josh Helman and Chai Hansen in the lead.
Aisha Dee (Safe house, apple cider vinegar) Stars like Lina, a paramedic who deals with Fire & Rescue Worker, Cain (Chai Hansen). When they don’t bicker over their wedding plans, the two role play as anonymous dates in bars that get it in ‘Nestshare’ accommodation for kicks.
But when they attend a glamor party in the house of Friends Clare (Laura Gordon) and Axel (Luke Cook), Lina hunky then meets (Josh Helman) who charms her about a cocktail in no time. When drunk Cain embarrasses them both, Lina admits her desires and sleeps with Axel in the same accom (no time for consent laws here) to discover someone who has filmed the whole thing with hidden cams.
When the imminent text messages arrive, she does not know who to trust and is shit-scared of the world that discovers her own dirty little secret.
From there it is a smooth slope of distrust, guilt, law breaking, more lies and a different degree of danger to Lina. Save a thought for Cain, whose sincere desire for marriage was imploded behind his back for no logical reason …
The actions of the central character, which presumably lives or death decisions in her daily job, let her dangling like a fairly unlikely heroine. She fluctuates from the sheet to the sheet, easily forced by a stranger, and swings almost without words into a seduction scene before the intimacy coordinator can say stop. The script of Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk does not offer time for real chemistry or tension to work to his advantage. At one point Lina even flirts with then in a car while her fiancé is flocked in the back seat. And they met only an hour ago …
Any sympathy for Lina as the victim of a surveillance scamming-whacko is also reduced by further egoistic decisions that are fed by lust or despair.
As a thriller, there are necessarily red pegs where the public looks at the support of characters with a deep suspicion. What blackmail her? Think about it, I didn’t really register what the Voyeur made anyway .. cash, more videos, a better script?
In the middle of this everything is Chai Hansen, recently seen in The newsreaderstepped up to a leading role as the unlawful partner. It’s great to see him doing more, while Josh Helman, of Furious: to Mad Max Saga, is not offered too many layers.
The direction in some scenes could do with more pacing. I am fed up with Aisha Dee thinking about her own mistakes and looking anxiously in the eyes of her friends that they knew her secret. Especially when she only made more bad choices.
It is positive that the series went to a length to throw various, it is a melting pot of Sydney to that front, without ever feeling that it is imposed.
Compared to recent stories about romantic thrillers, such as the excellent Fake” Looking at you Deviations with the necessary sympathy early. If you play the singles scene if you are already engaged, how on earth should we feel sorry for you if it blows it in your face?
Looking at your screens on Friday, October 3 at Stan.
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