Van Der Valk viewers rip into major problem with ITV detective drama – fuming ‘why do I still watch?!
VIEWERS of Van Der Valk have been left hitting out at the show after they slammed the quality of the programme’s acting and script in a series of scathing tweets.
The Sunday night drama has returned to ITV screens for another outing but it appears as though many viewers wish it hadn’t have bothered.
Set in Amsterdam, the show stars Marc Warren and Maimie McCoy and is a loose remake of the popular 70s show of the same name.
The new incarnation debuted in 2020 and begun its third and final series last month.
However, fans have been left disgruntled as they ripped into the programme online.
They called out the show for not being true to life and were left feeling angry over the ‘poor quality’ of script.
One viewer wrote: “I really don’t know why I bother with this show. It’s bloody rubbish tbh.”
Another attempted to soften the blow as they said: “Good Sunday night viewing but some of the acting and script is dreadful. Marc Warren is excellent as #VanDerValk.”
A third raged: “Silly story lines and detectives and forensics don’t behave like this in real life. It has also nothing to do anymore with Amsterdam. The Amsterdam cityscape lovely though.”
As a fourth commented: “Some of the acting in #VanDerValk is shocking.”
While a fifth added: “I’ve made a promise to myself not to Tweet anything negative anymore but my God I’m being tested tonight.”
The cast recently admitted that they came under fire during the filming process of the latest series.
Maimie McCoy, 44, who plays feisty detective Lucienne in the rebooted crime series spoke of the disruption with the locals in a quiet village in the Netherlands.
The actress told The Sun’s TV Mag: “We filmed in this gorgeous little village with just one through road – and the villagers hated us being there!”
“They would be stuck in traffic trying to get through and beep their horns, so you’d be trying to do a scene and there’d be these consistent horns blaring, and shouting.
“It would be like: ‘Get lost! Get out of our place.’
“One of the caravans we were staying in, which belonged to a location guy, got vandalised.
“Some woman was really annoyed that we were there, so they smashed in the back window overnight. Sometimes people get very excited about film crews but it was the opposite there.”