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Suspect (2022)
Oh Dear What A Waste of Top Talent
Well I seem to be the only person that whilst appreciating the undoubtedly talented Anne M Duff are just gob smacked of the sheer over acting going on here . Her character is definitely on the edge and Duff goes all out to show it with a face like a wet weekend and borders on the hysterical. Not a very sympathetic character at all . The marvellous Debbie Aldridge , sorry Tamsin Grieg deserves better fare than this high flying ex CPS lawyer and her husband the Ben Miller character plays it like the local village who dun it .
This could and should have been a cracking crime drama if there had been a cracking script; this was definitely not it !
Wisting (2019)
Expected Better !
Quite possibly the dullest, formulaic, plodding and wooden Scandi drama I have watched to date . I guess that after the The Bridge set the standard every other crime drama would be compared to it so a very high bar to climb. However that doesn't mean scriptwriters should just give in and just not bother to up their game. So despite the fact that this series was not a patch on say , The Bridge or the splendid French crime thriller Spiral , I had to make sure I had endured the complete series prior to writing this review. IMO there was nothing good about this terrible series featuring William Wisting who has no charisma, no personality and just goes through the motions. Successful crime dramas needs a sense of jeopardy to create suspense, intrigue and interest. This 2024 Wisting series has none of these and is a dud.
Grace (2021)
Oh Dear ! Yet Another Tired, Dull, Plodding Cop Drama
Oh dear , yet another plodding , dull , cop drama gets shoved out of the ITV crime department. This is ' drama' by numbers with the very fine John Sim given scraps and given a charisma by pass. So we have lots of drone footage of Brighton In between snippets of 'action '. As my daughter lives in this city I enjoyed spotting the locations. Having watched most of the various series just in case I only watched one dud episode I was pleasantly impressed by my ability to recognise that Grace is a wasted opportunity to have produced an engaging, crisp, taut and tense police drama. Apparently this series is going out in the Vera slot and is just as underwhelming as that weak waste of time.