Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

Paula Patton experiences her own wave of Deja Vu as Laura Price when she is given a second chance to save her daughter from being murdered. Sent back eight days before she uses the knowledge of all she remembers from the first time around to try and cheat fate.

I would say that this ten episode series was split into three parts. The first was working out who murdered Serena Price, the second and the most confusing part was the turn around, which led to the third part where all the real answers were.

If I could formulate a graph of my emotions whilst watching this show, it would have as many spikes up as it would have down.

The concept for this Deja Vu-esque series was great – I won’t fault that or even comment on the ridiculously contrived therefore unexplainably supernatural way it came about. Nope. Not one word.

I did find that the characters were hit and miss – sometimes the acting was deplorable – mostly from the leads – Paula Patton, Devon Sawa, and JR Bourne, which is worrying. I wanted to punch little Serena Price in the throat quite often – which I guess means the actress Aria Birch did a great job of playing her role.

Yet on the flip side there were some action scenes that were so realistic my breath was held in anticipation, and the twists and turns the story took had you too impatient to wait for the countdown to run out on Netflix before you hit Next Episode.

If this review sounds like a mess of contradictions – I did warn you; as many ups as it did downs.

Yes I hated the strangely mundane name of the show, and scowled continuously at Paula Patton’s constantly damp hair. However Somewhere Between was ultimately a harmless binge watch that will somehow have you utterly invested – and I am more than okay with that.