Patience Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Considering that this is built on – rips off stories essentially verbatim – the original Astrid TV series, it’s hard to understand how the producers, directors, so-called writers, and actors could come together to make this such an absolute embarrassing failure.
Most notable, the lead actress has no talent whatsoever. Completely opposite of the actress in the lead for the French original, Astrid, this actress creates a character who generates no interest, nothing compelling, and she obviously did not even the most cursory research into neurodivergence or autistic behavior. She is as shallow as any high-schools wannabe could be in this role.
She is the most glaring example of how the entire production seems to have skipped over that key element – that the lead character suffers barely functional autism. This character (Patience) has no trouble with eye contact, displays every facial expression that every teen ‘actress’ seems to learn in the same generic acting classes that they all take on their paths to their 3 minutes of ‘stardom’. Just awful. Awful. And, it’s an insult to real neurodivergent people, as well as to the original TV series on which this cheap rip-off is based.
Also, as is typical and tiresome for most Brit TV police shows, the female cop leader has a troubled child and is portrayed as being a bad & inattentive parent. The portrayal of this character is a deviation from the original series, and is a big – but typically British – mistake.
Similarly, as with most Brit cop shows, this one has the stereotyped male detective of some unspecified ethnicity, who is rude and gruff, and in this case, displays no detective skills or even common sense. Neither the character nor the actor bring anything to this show other than meeting low expectations for ‘more of the same’ Brit cop crap.
How this show even credits a writer is baffling. The real writing was done for Astrid (the original), and each episode of Patience follows the original fairly closely. Yet, as would be consistent with the thought (and likely the integrity) behind this show as a whole, no writing credit is given to the writer of Astrid.
This lead actress is SO gawd awful frustrating, worse and worse with each episode, as she as no clue how to portray what should be most important – most distinctive – about the character. Obviously, the directors have been instructed to leave her to it, or are in full complicity with her in not caring one whit. It’s hard to figure how she got this role…. But, then again, maybe not hard to figure.
