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(2021)

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8/10
Good story, great debut for Adam.
Sleepin_Dragon14 September 2021
A woman is killed in her home, a victim of domestic abuse, her ex, abusive partner is the prime suspect.

Perhaps not the intense story of last week's, but a fine episode, a very good story, and some great characters. Last week it was all about Nikki, this time it's very much Jack's story, professionally and personally.

I notice that they've scaled the gore back, I was able to eat my evening meal without hiding behind a cushion. A little more humour than we've been used to in recent years, it really did work, loved the name Frank the ****. What it lacked in gore, it made up for with some pretty nasty, brutal scenes, it didn't hold back.

Jason Wong made a cracking start as Adam, he's self assured, he's handsome, he's clever, and he seems to have a little chaos going on, he's very different, and I'm sure make a great addition.

Very strong cast, with Patrick Baladi and Jack Deam playing dodgy characters, loved Caroline Sheen as DI Hughes.

Very good, 8/10.
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1/10
Ticks all the beebs boxes
Banner414120 September 2021
Shocking, poor acting , no chemistry between the actors , the lead is weak and supporting cast range from terrible to poor .

These guys need to check their job descriptions, they'll be working in the staff canteen next .. but it ticks all the relevant boxes so all's ok I presume ..
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1/10
Different director??
wvdheiden20 February 2023
This is unworthy of being a Silent Witness. What a difference with the previous episodes. No idea why wrote this and directed it but it's totally not logical, terrible acting, jumping to weird conclusions. Bad dialogs weirdly behaving people and I could go on for hours.

I haven't checked for continuity errors but I'm sure they are there even the sidelines are incoherent. Deaf girl just shows up. Is family in 3 seconds. Is all of a sudden drunk.

I hope this was a big mistake and the next episodes are made as usual. Would be a shame if this is the new standard for a normally brilliant series. Please.
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1/10
There are no words for how bad this is
christinewarburton27 September 2021
Writing, direction, storyline and the sets all bad enough - by bad I mean predictable, stale, unrealistic and preachy. But this is totally surpassed by the dreadfulness of the acting. Seriously, were there no professional actors available, or did they take one look at the script and decide to avoid?

I don't think those brilliant US and amazing Scandi crime dramas have anything to worry about. This is UK television at its very worst.
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