VividSimon Simply Perfect

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Msbnitski Loved the story and the characters. Never leaves you hanging except when you can't wait to watch more. Very well written and it's a series that is just the right length for a 1 day binge.

ditzzeechick We couldn't stop watching and would love a season 2 tomorrow! Banville was compelling, as was Greenwood. Would love to see these two characters fleshed out even more. Her partners retorts to her demands at the end were brilliant. I'd like to see more of Dom next season (right, get on this!?) I'v managed to watch all Brit TV for the past 6 years & have raved to family members about the quality & depth of programs where no one screams, all women aren't pretending to be tough guys & how USA TV is shite.... to no avail...until we all cut the cord. We all now are members of BritBox, AcornTv, Walter Presents, Netflix, AMZN & the list will expand. As long as you produce shows like Fearless, River, Paranoid, Happy Valley, Norskov, Rita we'll happily live to see the demise of USA crap TV. This wasn't the BEST show ever, but it beats 99% of what we're offered on this side of the Atlantic. More, more more!

markfranh When I watch a drama like this, I ask myself (and I hope others do too) whether or not the actions of the characters are credible. NOT, whether or not You or I would do or say the things they say; but rather whether or not it is credible that someone might do or say the things they say.The answer in the first painful hour and a half my wife and I sat through was all too often "no, a thousand times no." Kevin Russell's ex wife has remarried. Is it credible that the new husband is so supportive of his wife's years and years of trying to clear her ex-husband's name? Not really. Why would any man accept that their wife is more obsessed with their previous husband than with him? Is it credible that Kevin's son, who no doubt has been raised from birth to "know" that his father was innocent, is so openly hostile towards his father and his mother to the point that he joins a vigilante mob rallying against his father? Not particularly. Maybe, just maybe, but we didn't buy it.Is it credible that the victim's parents who are so incredibly hostile and confrontational (understandably) to Emma's efforts to re-open the case are suddenly willing later to almost calmly and voluntarily to even sit down with Emma to answer pointed questions about their dead daughter's behaviour? Absolutely not.Is it credible that when a second forensic exam arranged by Emma shows that the victim was initially murdered and buried at the air force base before then being dug up and reburied next to Kevin's shed are more or less glossed over despite it being pretty much unequivocal proof (or at least 'reasonable doubt') of Kevin's innocence? A thousand times no. Especially when one would have expected Helen to plaster this fact all over the media and doesn't. Why would someone murder her elsewhere and then shift the body to right beside Kevin's shed? Maybe, just maybe, to put the blame on Kevin? Would that possibly occur to the police if the findings were passed on to them as any defence attorney would normally do? I would hope so but not in this drama.Is it credible that the case would be sent for retrial rather than just dismissed once the confession is thrown out because of the obvious pressure and coercion when it would appear that there was no other significant evidence against Kevin other than he was seen talking to the girl on the night of her disappearance. Not really. Without the coerced confession, there doesn't seem to be any other evidence against Kevin. At least none that was given to the viewer.Yes, compromising photographs of the victim do appear but do the photographs really implicate Kevin when someone else confesses to having taken them? Not at all. It is not necessarily the case, as was implied in the plot, that he must have been disposing of evidence. The defence team says that if the photograph burning ever came out then Kevin is done for. Nonsense, when the defense can certainly argue that they were burnt in Kevin's shed because he found them so offensive especially after the photographer confesses to giving them to Kevin. Case closed.The implication also is that Kevin is so smart that he knew he had to dispose of the photographs because they might be used as evidence against him if they were found while at the same time being perfectly happy to dig up the body from the air force base and rebury it next to his shed where it would be eventually found. Would any jury buy that? Were we the viewing audience supposed to think that the defence wouldn't point out the inconsistency? Apparently.Is it credible that the original investigating detective just happens by some absolutely extraordinary coincidence to now be working for anti-terrorism and investigating Emma's only other client? Come off it! Coincidence is the refugee of the poor writer as far as I'm concerned.Was it credible .... Oh, I can't be bothered anymore.And on and on it goes. My blood pressure just kept going up scene after scene.My apologies for rambling a bit and perhaps not writing as well as I usually do but I'm still fuming about this rubbish and that we wasted an evening and a half watching it.Midway through episode 2, we'd had enough and put on something else.I would suggest others don't even start for the sake of your own health.

jc-osms Once you got past the awful title sequence and the usual, dull latter-day accompanying title song, this six-part contemporary political thriller made for entertaining watching.Centring on lost-cause defence solicitor Helen McCrory's Jane Banfield's penchant for taking on tough cases for what might seem on the face of it unsympathetic defendants, she apparently quite happily lets the client and indeed the family of her clients stay over at her place. The main story here concerns the unsafe conviction of a young father for the murder 14 years ago of a 15 year old girl, mainly down to a confession forced out of him by an over-keen female police detective played by Wunmi Mosaku, who becomes one of the focal points for Banfield's later campaign for the man's release. There's a connected sub-plot too involving a young Syrian mother who is staying at Banfield's pending immigration clearance and whose absent husband is suspected of terrorist sympathies.The stories take many a twist and turn as you'd imagine over six episodes, involving a female mysterious American "fixer" with her own reasons for keeping the convicted "murderer" in jail, a senior British Whitehall mandarin in on the cover-up and in particular a new, young rising-star Labour politician who they seem to be helping to the top of the so-called political greasy pole, for their own ends. The fixer will stop at nothing to cover her tracks, including blackmail and attempted murder as she reports back to her ruthless U.S. Intelligence bosses and seems to keep one step of Banfield and her investigation until the latter's persistence pays off and the whole house of cards falls down in a dramatic conclusion outside the by-now new Labour leader's house.While much of the story seemed to credit Banfield with detective instincts of which Sherlock Holmes would be proud, as well as the usual unbelievable coincidences and fantastic high-level connections, the action was fast-moving and carried forward by a fluid production acted out well by a mostly quality cast with Michael Gambon in particularly fine form as the oily, senior British link in the American chain of deception although quite what comedian John Bishop was doing as Banfield's "bit-of-rough" current boyfriend, I'm not quite sure but it didn't have much to do with acting skills.It didn't look like there were markers laid down for future series featuring the Banfield character which would be a shame as her character is a strong one and one can easily imagine her returning a la "Prime Suspect's" Helen Mirren or "Happy Valley's" Sarah Lancashire, but be that as it may, this was superior small-screen drama well worth viewing.