We started watching (I was keeping my eyes closed some of the time!) but it was DH who decided to turn it off - think that must have been just before the tongue bit. It was a relief - his choice but I didn't want to continue.
If you found the boat to gory. What Wolf it's on iPlayer. Not as gory more psychological. Also Deceived very good but can't remember if it's on iPlayer or All 4.
If you don't like gory but like a good mystery watch Magpie Murders with Lesley Manville. On iPlayer also Sherwood again with Lesley Manville.
I guess it's one of those Marmite shows ... love it or hate it. We are enjoying it, it reminds me of the Coen Brothers (Fargo) and Killing Eve among others. I love the dark humour and the strangeness of it. I think it's a brave offer from the BBC in the Sunday night slot. We've not watched it all yet, we like to go week by week in the old-fashioned way.
Another one we are enjoying is 'Scrublands' on Saturday nights - set in Australia, a very violent mass shooting in the opening minutes, but all is not what it seems.
I watched it all on iPlayer and really enjoyed it, brilliant dark humour, lots of twists and turns. It just got better with every episode. Highly recommend it
The extreme violence definitely has shades of the Coen brothers' films of which I've always been a fan. Violent - yes, very. Different - yes, very and funny and clever too. Certainly extremely black comedy. Maybe the violence (especially tongue extraction!) could have been made a little less realistic but on balance this is a very well made production with excellent acting and I found it both intriguing and interesting. Incidentally I'm someone who can only watch violence if I know it isn't actually happening!
You can recommend it as much as you like, some of us don't want any more blood, gore, murder, drugs, serial killers etc. We're just sick of it and I don't think it should be shown at 9pm on the BBC when pre-teens may still be up and come across it by accident.
Annoyingly I couldn’t work out how to get subtitles on catchup at first and I struggle to hear what people are saying so, by episode two I’m a bit confused about who’s who. Thankfully, years of watching Game of Thrones and Scandi noir have desensitised me enough to watch gory things. It is pushing me to my limit though.
It is horribly gory so I slide it on a bit for the worst bits but why is it I can’t wait for the next one - hoping that the girl with blue haired girl survives the awful tailor whose voice I immediately recognised but he does look older .