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On how to not make a movie.

Here is how you do that: You start with a vague idea of what you want to do based on a succesful movie that just came out before.

You start with the action scenes and make each of them as suspenseful as they can be.

This is what you need as a baseline: Safety equipment protects people's lives. You want to show life-threatening situations. Establish very soon and make it clear that safety equipment is unreliable.

To maximize suspense, you need to use the concept of 'plot laws': In the real world, material items act according to laws of nature, physical, chemical and biological laws.

People act based e.g. On their values, knowledge, capabilites and social context.

That's in the real world, though.

In your movie, everything acts and behaves as your plot requires.

Here is how you could use this: We have characters A, B and C. A is standing on a ledge. B and C are hanging on a rope that A let down to them.

B is slowly climbing up the rope and is now also on the ledge. C hasn't done much yet, but is the best climber of the group, world class.

Now, when the attention goes to C: Show the wall, which should be beginner difficulty level. A and B now need to discuss, if the rope can hold the weight of C. C needs to be really scared now and should not be able to climb up the rope. Climbing the wall should never come up as a possibilty. The rope is the only thing that matters.

A and B pull up C.

A, B and C then should climb up a very difficult wall very quickly next and this should be the first time without using any safety equipment.

Ideally, C complains about A and B being too slow and is very vocal now.

Next scene: rope falls down the mountain and is lost.

Next scene: rope is used to carry 5 people without any concern.

Next scene: rope would be needed, but has fallen off the mountain.

Rest of the movie: use a lot of different very long ropes and never have anyone talk about ropes again.

In parallel do a similar thing with water: Show people drinking then run out of water. Have them discuss how long they can only live now, while ignoring a source of water directly behind them. Never bring up the subject again or show anyone drinking later.

Not what happens in that movie, but they probably should have and the movie marketed as comedy.

Clearly, the movie is trash.

I guess 5 stars, because I have to assume the actors understood the level of trash they were involved in and still managed to deliver good performances. Also, some scenery shots are nice.

Show has an interesting concept of telling one story with the focus on different characters: the sister, the detective, the wife, the son, etc.

You could see the sister as the main character probably. It is a very unlikeable character who is treated with far too much kindness by those she meets. But most characters act way too rude for real life. Most telephone conversations end with people just hanging up their phones e.g. Characters generally talk too little with each other, get enraged too quickly and tend to resort to hectic activism.

The plot is good though and kept me interested. At some point all the mysteries have to be solved though in this sort of crime show and that is when the show drops in quality. Not because the plot twists are unlikely or the solutions are unlikely, but because there is an actual quality issue with those episodes.

The worst piece of music and the worst camera and editing work is actually in the final scene of the series.

If you are annoyed by the sister character too much, I would recommend to not watch it. She does not get less rude or annoying at any point, really.

Overall, I would say the show misses some real characters. Everyone seems to be too much of a stereotype and way too little empathetic to accept them as real persons.