Such a frustrating disappointment

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Did you ever see such a bumbling bunch of so-called PIs? This show is banal in the extreme and offers nothing in the way of comedy or drama. In the fact dialogue is neither humorous or dramatic. The same theme permeates every episode; the main character gets hit in the head, kidnapped and beaten, bungles the job, his side-kick is a gibbering idiot who contributes nothing to the show or the storyline, suddenly everything is made good at the end and there you have the storyline for all seasons. Was it desperation or apathy that kept this show going for so many seasons? The upside is the beautiful scenery of Newfoundland.

It is difficult to believe that this show is written by professional writers. The scripts are terrible; the actors are terrible; everything about it is horrible. Truly pathetic. I would expect such drivel from US network TV, but it is very disappointing that Canadian fare is so bad.

How did Canadians put up with this for 6 years? Holy Crap! Is there any cliché that isn't used in this first episode? Every character is a cliché, every situation is a cliché, every relationship is a cliché, and every line of dialog is horribly clichéd. Ugh! If this were made in the '70s, you might say it was original, or at least a light hearted ripoff of the PI shows of the day. But this is absolute warmed over drivel.

I just watched episode one thru twelve and enjoyed to locations and visual shots here and there of various parts of town. The opening noise called "Oh Yeah" deserves a huge "Oh No". It is loud, lyrics consist of two offensively shouted lyrics and is nonsense. In the beginning they used to insert similarly loud noise (passed off as music) between scenes but that seems to have softened towards later episodes. And now for the cast:The Hero: Quirky, lots of human frailties, faults and goofiness. Works very well. Could soloeasily if the father somehow left the show.Malachy the Father: Familiar face, only real purpose is to wisecrack. Could be left out.Niki: The doctor soon to be ex-wife Wac job. Too schizo, gets tiresome. Please go.Des: The teen kid goof ball. I like him, think he adds to the showTinny: The ballsy teen daughter. All shows need a ballsy teen daughter. Formula.Rose: Malachy's Susan Sarandon look-alike lady friend. OK, like her better than Malachy.Leslie: The policewoman. I like her the best. She add more interest to plots than any other.The Horn Toad blond lawyer friend: He is always fun, and his appearances nice and short. In a couple of episode we had Rose's husband just released from prison. Uncomfortable. In another, a long lost brother Christian shows up, turns out he is just out of rehab and a bunch of crooked lawyers are trying to do him in for whistle blowing. Uncomfortable. Streamed these in the U.S. via my Acorn membership, anticipate future series hoping the sub-plot characters stop and hope the writing gets more crisp.