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Endeavour: The Final Episode, ITV1 review - the final bow for Oxford's finestWednesday, 15 March 2023
Endeavour first landed way back in 2012, and suddenly here we are, bidding it a final farewell after the end of its ninth series. Not everybody learned to love Shaun Evans as the pre-John Thaw Inspector Morse, but some of us may even have come to... Read more... |
The Gold, BBC One review - gripping dramatisation of the 1983 Brink's-Mat bullion robberyTuesday, 14 February 2023
The raid on the Brink’s-Mat warehouse at Heathrow in November 1983 has entered the folklore of British crime and criminology. The gang of six armed robbers had expected to find £3m in cash, but instead got away with £26m worth of gold bullion. The... Read more... |
Happy Valley, Series 3, BBC One review - tension mounts as the Yorkshire crime drama approaches its conclusionMonday, 16 January 2023
In this glittering era of global streaming, the viewer is constantly bombarded with the latest and most sensational TV drama from South Korea, Australia, Denmark, California etcetera. But Huddersfield’s own Sally Wainwright continues to show most of... Read more... |
Karen Pirie, ITV review - cold case mystery drags itself across the finish lineMonday, 10 October 2022
Although plaudits have been rolling in for Lauren Lyle’s smart and sparky portrayal of the titular detective in Karen Pirie (ITV), getting to the end of the third and final episode felt like a long slog. The traditional ITV two-hour slot is of... Read more... |
The Darkest Part of the Night, Kiln Theatre - issues-led drama has its heart in the right placeSaturday, 23 July 2022
Music plays a big part in the life of Dwight, an 11-year-old black lad growing up in early 80s Leeds. He doesn't fit in at school, bullied because he is "slow", and he doesn't fit in outside school, would-be friends losing patience with him.But he... Read more... |
Suspect, Channel 4 review - a stylised remake of a Danish psychological dramaMonday, 20 June 2022
Suspect has a simple premise: a detective goes on a routine visit to a mortuary where an unidentified young woman has been taken after being found hanged. Suicide is the initial judgment: the cop, Danny Frater (James Nesbitt), grills the pathologist... Read more... |
We Own This City, Sky Atlantic review - 'The Wire' creator David Simon is back on the Baltimore beatThursday, 09 June 2022
It has been 14 years since The Wire, David Simon’s labyrinthine epic about crime and policing in Baltimore, reached the end of the line. Yet it seems he couldn’t let it lie, because he’s back on the Baltimore beat with We Own This City (made by HBO... Read more... |
DI Ray, ITV review - Parminder Nagra battles killer gangs and cultural stereotypesSunday, 08 May 2022
Somehow or other, fictional representations of the police have become an off-the-cuff index of changing times and evolving values. Dixon of Dock Green’s cops were stern father figures who knew right from wrong and considered it their duty to give... Read more... |
The Responder, BBC One review - the loneliness of the long-distance copperTuesday, 25 January 2022
Cops on the box… don’t we just love ‘em? From Jimmy Perez and Ted Hastings to Inspector Reid from Ripper Street and Stella Gibson from The Fall the list is endless, but obviously we need more. The copper seems to have become the battered Everyperson... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Deep CoverSunday, 29 August 2021
Bill Duke’s 1992 thriller Deep Cover receives the Criterion restoration treatment, and certainly the neon noir lighting looks luscious and fresh. It’s a shame the screenplay, the directing, and most of the acting hasn’t stood the test of time. ... Read more... |
Professor T, ITV review - whimsical tales of boffinly detectionMonday, 26 July 2021
ITV’s new detective mystery, Professor T, is an adaptation of a Belgian series of the same name, and was filmed in Belgium and Cambridge. Which is a bit weird since all the action supposedly happens in Cambridge.Anyway, the title role of Professor... Read more... |
Baptiste, Series 2, BBC One review - powerful comeback for the sorrowful French detectiveMonday, 19 July 2021
Baptiste (BBC One) has two powerful weapons in its armoury, in the shape of its stars – Tchéky Karyo as the titular French ‘tec, and Fiona Shaw as the central character in this second series. Both of them are astonishingly persuasive at conveying... Read more... |
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