Like "The Ring" but set in Bolton, is the oft used line to describe BBC's Horror-drama "Red Rose" which was released in late summer of 2022. Whilst I enjoyed the performances throughout, the more the show ran on, the more it unravelled for me.
Rochelle Mason (Isis Hainsworth) is celebrating her last day of GCSE's exams when, at a low point, she receives a text pointing her towards an app named "Red Rose". The app promises to make her dreams come true but soon starts setting her trials to undertake. As a wedge is driven between her and her friends, the app becomes more and more threatening, until she begins to see images of her late mother through the camera.
I have to find the right balance here, as I need to talk about the later episodes of the show without spoiling the series. When the explanations start to come about what is happening, I found them to be less interesting and more implausible than other options, that might have been taken, would have been. I also think that, for what is essentially a horror show, it's quite tame in the levels of violence and actual horror that it's prepared to show, especially for a show that, though aimed at teenagers, goes out after the watershed (for what that's worth in an age of streaming).
I think that the performances from the young cast are all good, and the show is often quite funny. There are quite a few recognisable faces in the parents cast, indeed some are a depressing reminder of how old I am now, that they can play parents of teenagers.
I think this one season just about held together, more due to the cast than the plot, but I don't feel the need for anymore and also that there was a much better version of this that we weren't too far away from.
Rochelle Mason (Isis Hainsworth) is celebrating her last day of GCSE's exams when, at a low point, she receives a text pointing her towards an app named "Red Rose". The app promises to make her dreams come true but soon starts setting her trials to undertake. As a wedge is driven between her and her friends, the app becomes more and more threatening, until she begins to see images of her late mother through the camera.
I have to find the right balance here, as I need to talk about the later episodes of the show without spoiling the series. When the explanations start to come about what is happening, I found them to be less interesting and more implausible than other options, that might have been taken, would have been. I also think that, for what is essentially a horror show, it's quite tame in the levels of violence and actual horror that it's prepared to show, especially for a show that, though aimed at teenagers, goes out after the watershed (for what that's worth in an age of streaming).
I think that the performances from the young cast are all good, and the show is often quite funny. There are quite a few recognisable faces in the parents cast, indeed some are a depressing reminder of how old I am now, that they can play parents of teenagers.
I think this one season just about held together, more due to the cast than the plot, but I don't feel the need for anymore and also that there was a much better version of this that we weren't too far away from.