This can't really be called a series as such. 8 episodes of about 20 minutes each gives it a running time of around 2.5 hours. Despite that, it is far too long and at least an hour could have been shaved off this backwater dirge. Perhaps in this way they could have released it as a film and sent it straight to DVD saving everybody else the misery of having to watch it.
James Nesbitt plays a completely unlikeable character. To the point that I never want to see his face again. By around halfway through the first episode, I really didn't care what had happened to his daughter, I was just wishing he would hurry up and join her. Any of the characters whose lives he barges into and attempts to intimidate could have quite easily taken him out - and deservedly so. In fact, it might have made the show more enjoyable if somebody had.
This is a stereotypical English drama - dull, plodding, grey, devoid of any form of life, humour or fun. Stale plot, stale dialogue, no real thought put into anything. Just give it up already Channel 4, these are atrocious. Even as a daytime police/detective show this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
With any luck, Nesbitt will crawl back under his stone and disappear from screens everywhere. He has certainly disappeared from mine.
James Nesbitt plays a completely unlikeable character. To the point that I never want to see his face again. By around halfway through the first episode, I really didn't care what had happened to his daughter, I was just wishing he would hurry up and join her. Any of the characters whose lives he barges into and attempts to intimidate could have quite easily taken him out - and deservedly so. In fact, it might have made the show more enjoyable if somebody had.
This is a stereotypical English drama - dull, plodding, grey, devoid of any form of life, humour or fun. Stale plot, stale dialogue, no real thought put into anything. Just give it up already Channel 4, these are atrocious. Even as a daytime police/detective show this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
With any luck, Nesbitt will crawl back under his stone and disappear from screens everywhere. He has certainly disappeared from mine.