The writer has explicitly stated that she wanted to make her version of
Wish You Were Here and the admission is sensible seeing as the parallels are obvious, with a 17-year-old girl who is both free spirit and temptress entering the lives of a squabbling family in a seaside town and proceeding to turn them upside down. The father is a cripplingly blocked writer despised by his wife and the elder daughter just tries to keep her head under the radar in her mousy way.
In all honesty, the joie de vivre of the anarchic new arrival does start to grate after not too long: the makers seem to be more taken with her non-stop quipping and flirting than is reasonable to expect of the audience. So it actually comes as a relief when things go sour, as is always on the cards, and after that the fact that the end wants to reintroduce a note of sweetness is quite forgivable.
6/10
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