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There’s a good idea in here somewhere, but this isn’t the TV treatment it deserved.T here’s something pleasingly spooky – or spookily pleasing – about watching a show on Netflix on the increasing power of algorithms to determine our lives. Rebecca’s true “One” proves to be Matheus (Albano Gerónimo), a surfer-bum from Tenerife with a sleazy con-man for a brother. Rebecca herself pretends to have been matched with Ethan (Wilf Scolding), but he’s a heartbroken gay man with no discernible personality and is mere window-dressing for Rebecca’s public appearances. When The One matches her with a Spanish woman, Sophia (Jana Pérez), it drops her into a farcically complicated tangle of secrets and lies, about which it’s difficult to care one way or the other. Police detective Kate Saunders (Zöe Tapper) has lovely hair, and seems to spend more time organising her social life than doing any detecting. When the results match him with Megan (Pallavi Sharda), chaos predictably erupts. Hannah (Lois Chimimba) is in a seemingly happy relationship with husband Mark (Eric Kofi-Abrefa, pictured above with Chimimba), but idiotically gets Mark’s DNA analysed without telling him. The theft prompts a ferocious falling-out with Ben, and Ben’s unexplained violent death ticks away under the narrative as a police investigation gradually closes in on the truth.Īside from the thriller-esque trappings, The One aims to illustrate how disastrous an invention like this could prove to be by showing us its effects on the subsidiary characters. The fact that she stole a huge DNA database from the computer of her friend Ben (Amir El-Masry), with whom she lived before The One hit the big time, threatens to be the fatal flaw in her masterplan.
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Her burly minder Connor (Diarmaid Murtagh) never leads her side, since threats and intimidation may be required at any time. Snag is, Rebecca is also charmless and unscrupulous, treating even her so-called friends with supercilious contempt. Rebecca is ruthless and driven, and her steely single-mindedness has powered growth of The One and made it a spectacular global success. It’s she who, in partnership with fellow PhD scientist James Whiting (Dimitri Riviera Leonidas), created the technology behind “The One”, as they call it (James supposedly got the idea from studying the behaviour of fire ants).
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The problem is epitomised by the lead character Rebecca Webb (Hannah Ware). They tend to deliver their lines with a blank matter-of-factness, as if this was a read-through rather than the finished product. Unfortunately the characters feel semi-frozen too, radiating little in the way of human warmth. The One has a chilly futuristic sheen to it, with everybody living and working in buildings that look like advertisements from a team of deluxe architects (locations include London’s Barbican and the new Kings Cross development). The basic premise – that a corporation has invented a method of DNA testing which can match individuals with their perfect partner who “you are genetically guaranteed to fall in love with”– remains, along with a group of characters who experience the repercussions of this techno-dating app, but their identities and storylines have all been reinvented for the TV incarnation.īy and large, this is not a good thing.