Pretty good show all around. Good production, good actors. Definitely slow as molasses though, with not a lot going on and very little action.

After four episodes of this I can't watch any more. It's beyond glacially slow. Nobody is particularly likable and the plot is difficult to follow or get into. They tried to make a "dark" British cop show and ended up with this wanna-be artsy high production value series that misses the mark on everything except the actual production itself.

[tv+] There is a tense construction in the two central characters of this show that manage to maintain a constant pulse throughout the entire season. Especially when it surrounds them with an ambiguity in which we sometimes doubt both the probable corrupt activities of Peter Capaldi's Hagerty and the psychological stability of Cush Jumbo's June Lenker. So the story always manages to stay on the knife's edge to lead to an outcome that is less predictable than it might seem. Which is already an important merit.

4 episodes in and I like the "bad" guy more than I like the protagonist. She is just not likeable and I have no care what happens to her. It's also very slow paced and it's kind of hard to like. I'll see what happens but so far.... there's nothing here.

It's comical to read most of the male commenters just shread this. It is based on a real case, so cry babies about this isn't real world, too boring for them, she's a whatever, just comical how desperate pathetic men always feel like they have to advertise. Racism still exists. Misogyny still exists. Denying it just means these men are the racists and misogynists. So on to the review: I'm a huge fan of Peter Capaldi, and he truly delivers a first rate performance. You really never know throughout is he a bad guy or not. It's clear he didn't want to close cases the way this one was by the 2nd to last episode, but the final twist will take it full circle. Capaldi plays the character so well. I'm still wondering where did the character go wrong? No one is perfect, but at the same time, you leave feeling like he crossed so many lines. How many lines are too many? There's some great elements and depth to his character, whereas the female character is basically the same as he is, just female. She's breaking rules to prove they did something wrong. She's right, but it's in stark contrast to his breaking rules when he was wrong. There's a couple deep underlying concepts. Is it really okay for a woman to be like a man? As I already pointed out, a lot of the whiny men commenting prove they still love that double standard. The other is about men being vulnerable. Every male character in this is written quite well, with depth. It's still pretty rare to see men exposed with crying, questioning themselves, or admitting to mistakes. 9/10. The female characters other than the lead female had very little into the back story. That might have been done better.