Boat Story viewers ‘switch off’ after one episode as they slam BBC for ‘awful’ gory murders that ‘go too far’ | The Sun

BOAT Story viewers have ‘switched off’ after one episode as they slammed the BBC for ‘awful’ gory murders that ‘go too far’.

The new drama follows two ordinary people who come across a haul of drugs on a shipwrecked boat and decide to sell it and split the profits.

However, the pair soon find themselves on the radar of a sharp-suited gangster known as ‘The Tailor’.

Viewers soon saw what lies underneath the smart exterior of the character, as he goes on a rampage of torturing and killing in a bid to get his hands on the drugs, and those who stole them.

But the gory scenes left some viewers unable to stomach the series beyond its first bloodied episode.

Taking to X – formerly Twitter – one wrote: "Turned over from Boat Story on BBC. I've given it long enough. Awful."

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Another added: "Sorry not very original – and yes the violence is gratuitous. All been done before as in Stephen Merchant’s Outlaws – drugs stolen, drug gangs pursue culprits and violent deaths ensue. Switched off sadly!"

A third tweeted: "That’s me done with #BoatStory. To just go in to a police station and shoot people was too far for me."

Meanwhile a fourth shared: "Amazed this level of violence has been waved through."

While the premise for the show seems outlandish, its writers – brothers Harry and Jack Williams – actually based it on real life tales.

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Harry – who along with Jack also created hit series including The Missing, Baptise and The Tourist – said the idea for the drama "came from having seen articles about similar things involving large amounts of drugs washing up on shores somewhere.

"Most of the shows we come up with are through a series of conversations that we have with each other. This one, was what would we do if we had stumbled across a boatload of washed-up drugs?"

Boat Story continues tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

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