UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

CheeryToes Believe all the reviews. It's really really awful. I am sad to say I wasted four hours of my life... the melodrama, the bad one dimensional acting...and the end...oh god ...the end... No, don't waste your time. It's so awful that I can't even come up with 5 lines of text to trash it. It was inconsistent, hard to follow, over the top melodramatic and had a ridiculous ending. There, done - don't waste your time.

Kris Gray My biggest gripe of this series, as well as a number of other recent crime/police shows is the obsession of having a woman as the boss copper. I can't remember the last time a man was the top cop,I mean woman are constantly bemoaning that they can't get the top jobs but in TV land they have all of them in the police.OK whinge over. I have to say I basically enjoyed this series, thankfully they didn't drag it out to 6 or 8 episodes like some others I could mention. The main thing I didn't really understand was why it was important to bring Claire back from retirement after all those years, they didn't need to. Performances were very good from the two main leads and the Scottish scenery was as nice relief from Manchester, I mean who would willingly live there? Yes it could have been better, pace could have been faster certainly but at least the identity of the murderer wasn't obvious. It isn't awful like a lot of other reviews just not as good as we expect from Auntie Beeb.Didn't see the ending coming either.

blakedw Some of the criticisms of this series are unfair. For example, people complain about the long silences. Yet these actually provide a blessed relief from the dialogue, much of which can only explained as a Google translation of the original Gaelic. The start makes no effort to convince us there is anything realistic about to happen. Two bodies dead for many years are found in Manchester. The police inspector in charge immediately disappears to an island in Scotland, taking his sergeant with him. No careful buildup of the investigation here. The Scottish trip is to see his former colleague and lover, who worked on similar cases. She understandably refuses to go back with Jim, so we have a knockabout scene in which he threatens to arrest her. She goes, says her piece and goes back to Scotland. I'm a bit hazy after that, though we get more recent killings and maybe a new killer. There seems to be another fat bloke with a beard as well as the policeman. Somewhere without me noticing the inspector gets taken off the case because of some complaint. But he sticks with it. One review says that the female lead had to be persuaded to do it the show because she had "semi-retired" from acting. The word semi should be removed from that description as far as this fiasco goes. One review suggests that the ending may be designed to open the way to a second series. But surely nobody, NOBODY, could be so deluded as to think we could subjected to more of this nonsense. The big mystery here is how this came to be shown at all. Why didn't a BBC executive have the courage to say "This is such rubbish we can't show it. Just throw it away." But courage is not a big thing in the BBC nowadays.

Paul Evans Three quarters of the way through this series, I feel I can provide a well balanced review based on what I've seen so far.The story in brief, bodies are uncovered at a building site, DCI John Hind is placed in charge of the case, he'd originally looked into the disappearance of the girls. His former colleague Claire Church has quit the force and moved the the Scottish Isles with her husband. Hind manages to convince Claire to return to Manchester to assist with the case. A murder occurs using the same M.O. as the discovered bodies, the hunt is on to find the killer. As it unfolds it turns out that Hind and Claire had a history.It is quite slow in parts, there have been more slow pauses and deliberate gazes then I have ever seen. The production values are a little disappointing, it feels quite clunky.The story is interesting, but it's been done better so many times, Waking the Dead, Messiah etc.I have to say I found Anne Marie Duff quite a strange choice for the part, she's an excellent actress, maybe too good for the part. Johnny Harris I have enjoyed more, he fits the role much better.It's improved as it's gone on, Part 3 was rather good. It will be interesting to see who was responsible for the murders.