HIGH SEAS – Take Murder on the Orient Express, swap the train for a luxury liner, throw in a healthy dose of soap opera and voila – High Seas. Filmed in Spanish and dubbed in English, this NetFlix series includes all of the usual suspects, a good-looking cast and great 1940s wardrobe. It’s a fun who-dun-it romp until season three. Then the plot becomes ludicrous (even by soap opera standards). There are other flaws as well. Every dilemma is somehow easily resolved. And I never believed the characters were really on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It always looked like a Hollywood set with a fake sea and little movement of the ship upon the swells. Even during storm scenes the ship seems like a toy replica in a tank full of water instead of the real deal… which I’m sure it was, but it’s not supposed to look that way. All plot lines are neatly wrapped up by the end of season three, and overall, I liked it. But I wouldn’t have hung around for a season four. Cheers! No toasts, boyfriends or girlfriends for me, but there are plenty on board.

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