The Rig

[Insert Coin]

The wife and I spotted this on Prime, thought we’d give it a whirl as we recognised a few of the actors.

Just wow, it’s like something out of the 80’s, awful cgi, terrible acting and ridiculously cliched script.

I can’t believe Amazon would actually pay for this drivel!?

[Kes Arevo]

Bugger, was quite looking forward to seeing this!

(If you want to see some extremely home made, student standard, fan film crappery, you should watch 'The Requin'. Just watch it to be astounded that a modern film could be released like that)

[Badda]

Agreed, production quality is appalling!

[suffolk009]

I lasted 37 minutes

[InitialDave]

I watched it, didn't think it was diabolical, but certainly nothing special.

My main feeling was a constant "I'm sure I've seen these ideas done better before"

[jamesbilluk]

I'm quite enjoying it and I quite like stevie.. although, I do agree that alot of the CGI looks like a cut scene from a game.

[PositronicRay]

It seemed a waste of some big names, it didn't grip me like a thriller/horror should.

[Driver101]

I've heard numerous complaints about it. I'm disappointed. I was thinking about timing an Amazon purchase for a free Prime trial to see it.

[eharding]

It's not just dire, it's at best 90 minutes worth of hackneyed storyline painfully stretched out to getting on for 5 hours worth. The only possible explanation is that they've deliberately made something so bad as to generate enough comment that people watch it just to find out how bad it is.

[Driver101]

eharding said:

It's not just dire, it's at best 90 minutes worth of hackneyed storyline painfully stretched out to getting on for 5 hours worth. The only possible explanation is that they've deliberately made something so bad as to generate enough comment that people watch it just to find out how bad it is.

I find Prime bad for stretching out programmes. Just about everything could be improved by cutting out lots of it. It feels like quantity over quality.

[ozzuk]

I quite liked it to start, am a few episodes in but it is getting worse and worse. For example (no spoiler) what's with the green agenda? Note the posters dotted around, and industry stalwarts suddenly spouting green agenda - and a stereotypically corporate overseer that really want to get to board level to change the entire direction of the company.

In comparison the story was more believable

[LARK F1 GTR]

The TV trailer was enough to give it a hard pass!!

[D6GMB]

An absolute pile of steaming poo. One of the worst things I have seen recently.

[Steve vRS]

I work offshore occasionally so was going to watch this. However, I’ve seen lots of mixed reviews now so might not bother

Unless I can then come on here and point out how that would not happen on a UK platform like everyone did on that daft Submarine drama last year.

[surveyor]

Got to a certain stage.

When working/climbing at height we wear a harness with two lanyards, so one is always clipped on at any time. Someone should tell the producers... Quite basic stuff.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

LARK F1 GTR said:

The TV trailer was enough to give it a hard pass!!

Agreed.

"You can't punch holes in the earth without some repercussions"

Definite avoid for me.

[Robmarriott]

The start of the first episode felt like 1990s Casualty.

I stuck with it and it didn’t improve even by the end, the shouty man from the other rig was a bit one dimensional.

It had the potential to be quite good but everything was a bit wide of the mark.

[Jambo85]

Agree with most comments so far - the sci-fi aspect isn’t my bag but I’ll likely watch it all anyway. I noticed something weird about the names early on, then realised they’ve given most of the main characters the names of North Sea fields and/or platforms - Alwyn, Dunlin, Hutton, Fulmer [sic], Magnus, Garrow, and - the double whammy - Heather Shaw

ETA also Murchison.

Edited by Jambo85 on Monday 9th January 19:48

[ruggedscotty]

surveyor said:

Got to a certain stage.

When working/climbing at height we wear a harness with two lanyards, so one is always clipped on at any time. Someone should tell the producers... Quite basic stuff.

Yup indeed.... I noticed that... basic school by error, but if they had two hooks in operation there would have been no fall.... so it was poor writing of the script here

[HeadForTheHills]

The safety, technical and scientific details jumped out as wrong in so many ways.

I think this was shot on they same virtual real time CGI wall as 1899 - all the scenes with actors outside have out of focus moodily lit backdrops.
https://youtu.be/ZMynJCgJIQk
Many more low cost productions will follow on this stage :-(

Only thing I thought good was Mark Bonnar calmly reading The Kraken Wakes