Bedlam - Some Thoughts

For our British readers, I thought I'd very quickly offer my thoughts on Bedlam (the new so-called 'psychological horror' featuring Will Young. Here are my observations (after watching two episodes):

• It features some extremely poor cliches of the genre
• Will Young is trying hard to pass himself off as a straight guy, which appears slightly implausible despite going for the 'hottie' in the first episode
• Will Young is probably the best actor in the show
• Theo James is an ok actor but the amount of times he appears without clothing is starting to really grate
• There's a large amount of scenes that appear cringeworthy and 'cheap'
• Hugo Speer has an extremely bizzare part in the programme and I can't work out what he's meant to be doing in it, apart from being the sinister 'father figure' of Kate
  

I don't know why or how British supernatural drama keeps going so wrong. Such programmes as the seminal Ghostwatch, the well written Sea of Souls and the deeply disturbing Chillers all hit the nail dead on. Yet we've recently had a spate of less than average programming.

If you're interested, Wikipedia has quite a good page of collected UK supernatural drama.