Diverted review: one hotel bed, a grounded flight and a husband who keeps rebooking

Cancelled, again

Travel delays are the great equaliser, and Diverted gives them a plot. Fog closes a small Scottish airport and the last hotel room goes to two strangers: a married woman and a man she has only just met. Each morning another flight is cancelled and each night they go back to the same bed.

Her husband, meanwhile, keeps rebooking her home. Episode 1, Heads or Tails, is free on Dreamy Shorts with no account, and the coin toss in the title is as good a way to start a story as any.

Three roles and a departures board

Chatting with the cast is not an option on this platform, so these are parts and no more. The woman is dutiful and tired of it. The man is the stranger who makes the delay feel less like a delay. The husband is a voice on a screen, one video call at a time, and we suspect he is better written than he sounds.

Episode titles, One Robe, After the Bar Closes, The Video Call, Last Orders and Two Boarding Passes, trace the route from awkwardness to a decision about a ticket.

Warm room, cold weather

Dreamy files it under Scandals, Getaways and Experienced. The temperature comes from forced proximity: a shared robe, a late bar, a call taken in the corridor. Both leads are adults, and the series treats the situation as a choice and not an accident.

It stays suggestive, and what happens when the lights go out is left to the platform.

The stars, in plain words

Our stars never judge acting or picture; they come from platform facts. Diverted scores 4 for free runway, with two of six episodes free, and the same again for finishing ease, because six episodes are quick to complete.

Spotlight is 3, as it holds no place on the home-page rows, giving 3.5 stars and fourth of twelve in our own Dreamy order. We have no pilot mark to add, since the length of episode 1 is not on record. See How we rate.

The cost of staying

Booking a free account gets you episode 2. The rest is Premium, charged monthly or yearly at the rates on the platform, and Free Episodes and Pricing explain the rest.

Who will board, and what to read next

It suits viewers who like a story with a single location and a firm ticking clock. If you prefer a larger canvas, look at something with more movement.

For another confined romance, Silver Service has a restaurant on its last legs and Creatures of Habit a London agency. Stranded: The Heiress and the Cook puts two people on an island instead of an airport, while Claimed by the Dragon Queen offers a prisoner and a throne on Candy AI. Newest Model is a sci-fi comedy on Secrets AI. Browse the platform's other reviews in the Dreamy Shorts section.