Kerry Coldwell

Put 1 star cos you can’t put less. I was really looking forward to this but it’s very poor. None of the characters are believable. Book keeps referring to a 26 year old very short woman as a child when she very clearly isn’t a child but is trying to act like one. It looks very odd and unconvincing. Also it sounds like the character, Nora, either has a speech impediment that is not mentioned or is attempting to put on a strange accent. Either way it’s very difficult to tell what she is saying and it is very annoying. Then you have the police character who appears to do no policing and reverts back to Book before doing anything, and the obligatory reference to homosexuality, and supposed secrets. I’ll watch to the end of this one but won’t bother with any further series. Such a contrast with good crime drama. It’s no Strike or gritty drama and I it’s not got the appeal of the more frothy Midsummer Murders or Death in Paradise at least their characters are fun.

The film was very good apart from the appalling wokeness of casting Moriarty as a black woman who gets caught. Moriarty was far too clever to be cornered like that and his ego was always portrayed in a subtle way not by shouting about how clever he was.