FREQUENCY is worth the watch!
Iāve been writing and sharing heaps about RIVERDALE so thought Iād review another recent find for a change :) Last week I started watching and completely fell into binging FREQUENCY.
Seriously, If you havenāt watched this yet.... itās really worth checking out! Ā
Of course it is all centred around this epic ham radio (i love my old fashioned tech, ok), where Detective Raimy Sullivan (played by the gorgeous Peyton List) is somehow able to find communication with her (now) dead father, Frank Sullivan (Riley Smith) - although theyāre living 20 years apart! (He in 1996 and She in 2016) .... Raimy warns her father (an undercover Detective) that he is going to die, and this time he is able to escape his death .... but naturally, changing things in the past has some rather interesting effects on the future, directly impacting Raimyās life.Ā
Itās not all just a story about family, and how her life changes - no both Detectives are actually working together in the different timelines to solve a decades long serial killing case. Their target : The Nightingale.Ā Turns out that after Frank escapes death, the Nightingale never stopped killing (whereas previously he had been caught) and he is still at large in 2016 .... It also turns out that Raimyās mom, Julie was one of his victims in 1996 and the two work together trying to save their respective wife and mother.
This change in the timeline has other dire effects on Raimyās life ... Her fiancĆ© Daniel, was introduced by her mother (who is a nurse in 2016 , and Daniel had been a patient) ... but now that Julie (Devin Kelley) had died in 1996, Raimy and Daniel had never met, and when she goes to meet him for an arranged dinner with his family, he has no clue who she is, and turns out he has different āgirlfriendā.
Cue the heartbreak :ā(.
I mean cāmon just look at these two. Theyāre just adorable together. I have to say, I absolutely LOVED the character of Daniel Lawrence. He was absolute perfection, and after bumping into Raimy a few times, begins to feel that somehow it is fate that the two of them belong together ... although their story is a little confused and rocky... itās undeniable that these two are meant to be.
Daniel Bonjour does an incredible job in this show. Honestly, as a fellow South African, I could not be prouder to see my countrymen being portrayed in such a way, and thank goodness, as he is a South African actor, I canāt fault his accent (I could actually listen to him speak all day) !! It was always exciting having him on screen, and I really canāt wait to see his future acting projects. He definitely has made a fan in me. I couldnāt help but smile while watching his scenes.
It was also great to see Ā Mekhi Phifer back on screen, who I always loved on ER as a child and Anthony Ruivivar was perfect in his role too!
Overall the story is really good, the twists are interesting, and the plot is well developed. The entire cast is phenomenal and the acting is top class, one of the better casts Iāve seen in while, Ā really making the characters and stories believable.
Iām a huge fan, and I hope that they will produce a second season, but nothing has been confirmed yet.
So yea - if you are looking for a weekend binge - this 13 episode series is worth the watch with every episode leaving you wanting more.