Channel 5 drama The Fortune follows a woman who’s left a huge sum by someone she doesn’t know
The Fortune viewers were left baffled as the psychological drama continued on Channel 5, with several questioning the plot.
The series centres on waitress Amanda Blakefield (played by Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson) whose world is turned upside down when she learns she stands to inherit a vast estate from a complete stranger.
Amanda clashes with the rich man’s family, including son Anthony, who is played by All Creatures Great and Small star Callum Woodhouse, and also has trouble with her own husband Jimmy (Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis), who is receiving suspicious phone calls.
In the first episode of the series, Amanda ends up trapped in a car with a man named Boots who gives her a sinister warning. She gets away and races home, but in the second episode decides to return to the area and sneak into his creepy cottage in the middle of the night – alone – to investigate.
Viewers were left scratching their heads over the decision, with one calling it “daft” and another noting that she was “messing with fire”.
“Who goes wandering at night and enters the house of someone who had threatened her?” one person asked on X, as someone else said: “He has already threatened her, so she goes to see him on her own at night.”
“She was (scared) last night in the taxi and here she is alone wandering around his house in the dark,” someone else posted on the platform, which was formerly Twitter.
“Now she’s being daft again,” said someone else.
“Typical TV drama derangement syndrome. Do they: (a) consult a solicitor? (b) report threats & kidnapping to the police? No! It’s always (c) do it yourself and barge in uninvited to dangerous situations without telling anyone else.”
“Don’t think I’d want to be wandering around there at the dead of night,” admitted one viewer, as another posted: “Amanda’s messing with fire.”
However, others were gripped by the tense mystery, with one saying the episode “went with a bang” and another calling it “interesting”. “I enjoyed it,” said one, adding: “Good cast.”
Another person gave it a thumbs up, and someone else said: “Episode 2 so far is much better than the ludicrous episode 1.”
The Fortune is airing on Channel 5.
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