The Tunnel (TV Series) Episode #1.10 (2013) User Reviews

The ending was a bit contrived

[preppycuber · 7/10 · 1 September 2023]

This appeared like a nice series with some good actors, when it started of with the mysterious body puzzle. However, I felt the ending was a bit contrived, hurried and unsatisfying.

The actors did a good job, but I found the female detective annoying at times. Irrespective of how brilliant you are, nobody is going to accommodate her levels of weirdness. She is projected as someone who is logical, rational etc, but no amount of logic or rationality explains putting a child's life in danger to catch a criminal. Then the scene where she throws all that paper on the floor. That's ridiculous and no superior will tolerate you. That's blatant disregard for the rest of the team, working their rear ends off. Even they way she found a clue in that mess is a bit of deus ex machina.

Story could have been done much better. They introduced so many plot points, but did not tie everything up properly. They did not even explain why TT did what he did in the beginning. It's like trying to explain everything as the acts of a demented individual, which is like a cop out.

I can only hope that the subsequent seasons may be throw a bit more light on the Peloton and what Kieran actually found during his under cover operation.

Giving a 7 still.

Excellent casting

[ellenodonohue · 10/10 · 3 June 2019]

Clemence Poesy and Stephen Dillane are perfect togethet. A suspenseful and interesting series.

The ending missed its mark, only because S1 has veered off course

[richiehodev · 6/10 · 20 November 2022]

After the first 7 or so episodes of storytelling and events that tested viewers patience, episodes 8 and 9 finally showed why it matters and why the audience should care. The crimes and antagonist trace back to our protagonist in a deeply personal way, and now there was suddenly skin in the game. Even with the very non-sensical Fabien Vincent sideplot that only raised more confusion, there was yet still hope for a fulfilling and redeeming ending in episode 10. And redeeming, it was not.

We know the history between Kieran and Karl, and with all of the Peloton subplot with the human trafficking and covert operations with geopolotical implications - viewers are left wondering how did they arrive here here in Episode 10? The writers had 10 episodes to bring it all full circle to try and justify these random acts of crime back to the Kieran's main motive, but yet by the end of Episode 10, we are left with a very uneventful and unsatisfying end. The intrigue around S1 is a body split in half across the UK/France border right? Why did that matter in the end? What did all the crimes in between have to do with a madman trying to get revenge on his former colleague?

In the end, even when the stakes got personal and when viewers could feel for the first time that they could be invested in this story, the resolutions fails to deliver with any kind of meaningful emotional or redeeming impact, for both the viewers and our 2 main protagonists.