Well, it's started better than Luther.
And Keeley Hawes is much prettier as the central detective.
Hmmmm.
Agreed - much better than Luther (I watched the first episode of that but no more) but...
I switched it off when the police went into the school. The way they tried to capture "Smith" was stupid*, I lost interest and no longer cared.
Up until that moment the police had been behaving intelligently. Then they're stupid just so they could have a chase scene - when they could have behaved intelligently and still had a chase scene.
Smacks of interference - I'd be surprised if it was in the original script.
I might watch it next week, if I'm not washing the dog.
Steve
* What you do is have Smith called to the office where you have him cornered, you don't try to find him in a large library with multiple exits and only two cops with no backup - and I understand they *never* called for backup.
Then you saw more of Luther than I did. I lasted twenty minutes. This has followed the same tedious pattern with the female boss (a la Blue Murder and Lewis and Luther and Prime Suspect ) and the multi-ethnic cast. We have yet to come across the one with the alcohol/domestic problems but I'm sure it's on its way. Like you I don't quite buy the suspect yet and hope the plot has some new avenues to go down: if not, it's already played its hand and we can move on to something else.
Regrettably Keeley Hawes seems to have abandoned the femme fatale schtick for something a little more mumsy. Hmmm. Reserving judgement on that; reserving judgement on the whole thing.
Very odd that there are so few posts on this new series, esp given the presence of Miss Hawes. Luther attracted a deal of attention from the off.
Luther comparison is interesting- ex-Wire actors both playing tortured but brilliant cops. Who’s up next Dominic West or Clark Peters?
shareIf Smith had been called to the office he would probably have become suspicious and gotten out of the place instead of going to the office.
shareTrite, vacuous, dated. Paycheck time. Usual token black who looks the same as the guy on "Waking The Dead." I thought the Met had trouble recruiting ethnic minorities into the top jobs.
Where's this country's "Breaking Bad" et al? Just surprise us. Don't care how.
That’s Shaun Parkes (token black cop) who took the lead in a much fresher looking cop show, Moses Jones, earlier this year and wasn’t full of clichés and token casting.
I like David Harewood’s quote who said he had played more London cops than there are in the Met.