Amazon drama The Rig has a incredible forged, some nice preliminary mysteries and an entire lotta squandered potential
“Out here, things that can’t happen happen all the time”
Having not learn something about The Rig earlier than watching it, I really somewhat loved the WTF-ness of how its plot unfolded, to start with at the very least. The first Amazon present to be wholly filmed in Scotland, it’s set on the Kinloch Bravo oil rig, the place mysterious fog and scary tremors derail the crew’s plan to return to the mainland with surprising outcomes.
Quite what these outcomes are, I’d battle to let you know after getting by means of the six episodes. Created by David Macpherson, the present’s growing mysteries swerve between thriller, horror after which ultimately sci-fi. And as I mentioned, it’s a wild trip to begin off with, notably as such a robust forged (Iain Glen, Martin Compston, Mark Bonnar, Owen Teale) deliver heavyweight drama to the fore.
The early episodes are the strongest, when the aura is strongest and the ensemble is in full power. Tensions between the employees and the mixed officiousness of Glen’s supervisor and Emily Hampshire’s oil firm rep simmer properly and there’s a lot blame being handed round when issues begin to go ominously incorrect, the mutinous really feel whipped up primarily by Teale’s Hutton.
Once solutions, of a form, begin to come by means of although, the degrees of weirdness simply get compounded and what was at first spooky and unusual degenerates into one thing convoluted and sadly ineffectual. I don’t at all times want my sci-fi to make sense, am pleased to be bamboozled by one thing if it takes me on the journey with it however The Rig simply left me baffled.