Gender-swapping Freaky Friday.

You never know your wife until you’ve walked a mile in her high-heeled sandals. An adventurous couple sky-dives onto the island with the intention of reconnecting, but they should have been careful what they wished for.

Cue some rather laboured ‘sudden realisations’ of what it’s like to be a different gender with more than a nod to the realities of being a woman that seem to be difficult for some men to wrap their heads around. After I eye-rolled at the first couple of easy tropes, actually it’s not badly done, and it’s quite funny at times. There are things fairly common to the binary genders that we can recognise in ourselves and poke fun at. I didn’t like the ‘crying for no reason’ cliché though, and the thing that is supposed to explain it caused another eye-roll. I’m taking a point off for that, but promptly giving it right back for the ultimate resolution.

There is not a lot more of the folklore behind the island’s magic revealed as yet but we do get a little more of Ms Roarke’s backstory as she begins to train Ruby and wrestles with a long-term hotel guest’s broken heart – could it be a little too close to home for her? She wants to help him to move through his grief, which sounds like a kind act, but if you do the maths on the fact that he only has to be awake for 2 days out of every 5 years and he’s been there for 35 years… his loss will only feel 14 days old to him. I never liked maths.

I’d still take a few hours on a beach like that with a good doggo any day of the week.

Verdict: Running up that magical tropical island’s hill… with no a few problems. 7/10

Claire Smith