Channel 5 viewers were left bemused and bewildered by plot holes in The Feud ending on Wednesday (April 24) evening.
The conclusion of the six-part TV drama starring Jill Halfpenny was likened to “a cheese dream” by baffled observers – with one social media user also describing the final episode as “torture”.
And while dedicated watchers discovered which of Shelbury Drive’s residents was a murderer, it seems some would’ve preferred Channel 5 to “do better” with drama production.
The Feud ending slammed
One user on X moaned after the credits rolled: “Just finished watching The Feud on Channel 5… oh [blank] off! Yet another series with a crap ending! Do writers run out of ideas?! #thefeud #channel5.”
To which someone else concurred in their reply: “Terrible ending. This last episode seemed rushed.”
Two aspects of episode 6’s plot that particularly exasperated viewers concerned how a property was put up for sale on the same day it was a crime scene for a bloody killing, and how John Bartlett (played by Rupert Penry-Jones) was released from custody so rapidly after being arrested for murder.
As one viewer put it on X: “This is torture. I am never watching another Channel 5 drama.”
“This storyline is absolutely ridiculous. The timeline is farcical,” seethed another.
‘Never watched anything so ridiculous in my life’
Other incredulous viewers of the series also starring the likes of Larry Lamb, Amy Nuttall, Tessa Peake-Jones, and Chris Gascoyne dismissed the ending as bizarre.
“It was like a cheese dream at the end #thefeud,” one X user typed.
A second claimed: “#thefeud never watched anything so ridiculous in my life.”
“What an absolute [blank] show of a programme The Feud tuned out to be,” another fumed. “Channel 5 if this is where you invest your money, do better and make it bloody believable.”
A fourth reflected: “Ive slept on it…and nope still dont understand what the feck it was all about… there must be a surprise episode coming on to explain all the plot holes #thefeud
And a fifth assessed what they’d been watching: “What a pile of [blank] #thefeud.”
However, not everyone loathed what played out on their screens.
Someone else settled on: “#TheFeud Started off very promising, went on for too long, and then left a number of questions unanswered. Not forgetting that several bits of the storyline were, well, quite frankly, ridiculous. Such a pity as the cast were great.”
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The Feud is available to watch on channel5.com. Find out more about the killer’s real identity, more explanation about the ending, and news on series 2 here.
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