White Lines: What the Must Watch reviewers think

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their thoughts on White Lines. 

The Netflix series stars Daniel Mays and Laura Haddock as a woman who leaves behind her life in Manchester to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza.

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Hayley says: "If you watch it thinking it'll be nonsense, you'll find it fun"

"It’s quite trashy and ridiculous and it’s very easy to accidentally binge - you just start watching the next episode and don’t notice. The first one opens with a body being unearthed, so the rules state that I have to call that a ‘Must Watch’. That’s basically my ideal opening.

"It’s tonally bizarre - Daniel Mays’ character owes thousands of euros to drug dealers and he’s running around the island in this stupid orange car wearing a stupid shirt. That side was so funny and silly, so the more serious side with the Spanish mafia family faded into the background because of the loud shirts.

"If you’re watching it thinking it will be serious then it’s bad, but if you come at it thinking it’s going to be nonsense, I think you’ll find it fun.

"None of us can go on a summer holiday this year, so Daniel Mays in a Hawaiian shirt is your summer holiday. Ibiza always sounds like a nightmare to me, and this makes it look like the nightmare I assumed it would be. Everyone else will probably watch it and think ‘wow, that looks amazing,’ but I just think ‘wow, I love staying in!” Staying in is so nice."

Scott says: "It can't be both silly and serious"

"I find this whole show really messy because sometimes it’s super serious (it goes along the same vein as the creators’ Money Heist with the deals, betrayal, money and drugs), but then it goes into this wild goose chase and someone gets hit by a harpoon in a swimming pool.

"I think if you go into the mindset that ‘this isn’t going to be the greatest thing in the world but it fills time and it’s completely unpredictable’ and that you won’t find anything truthful or realistic in it, I think you’ll enjoy it.

"I am a fan of nonsense - there are many shows that take me away because they’re utterly silly. This show tries to be silly in one scene and then tries to do a really serious murder investigation in another and as a result it just feels jarring.

"If it was just silly it would be fine, if it was just serious it would be fine, but it can’t be both.

White Lines is now available on Netflix. 

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