Scott Glave

The series showed early promise with retro 60’s styling, even the music (although John Barry it isn’t) Unfortunately after episode three the acting became curiously tedious, as if just by the numbers and the show became pedestrian. Everything was done in measured tones including all the dialogue. There was no aura of tension or menace and then it just….ended. A pity for such a good start!

Quite gripping to begin with but plays itself out about 3/4 through and is disappointing at the finale, leaving too many threads unfinished. Pity as the cast is quite good.

I have just wasted two hours on ‘Dead Like You’ the most insipid and boringly PC (excuse the pun) ‘drama’. John Simm, along with all the rest of the cast, without exception, simply delivers lines with no character expression, I could have cut the tension with a spoon! If this is the quality of modern TV drama I would rather watch something realistic like ‘The Moomins’, give this trash a miss!

I found this to be a lacklustre tale of characters who I did not care about. The ‘poignant drama’ was simply a depressing tale of unlikely people brought together by tragedy. I should have switched off after the first two minutes when a mother was shot dead in front of her young daughter. The storyline just went downhill after that. One to miss!

As usual two brilliant performance’s from Jodie Comer and the great Stephen Graham. I appreciate that it was a ‘hard hitting’ drama and put its point across very effectively however; I thought the ending was contrived and an unnecessary addition to the overall plot, plus Comer’s dysfunctional uncaring family made the whole thing relentlessly bleak. We all find humour somewhere, even in the face of such adversity.