Jane Sand

I love this grim growly series where large lumpy men pound each other to a pulp and old ladies huddle over horrible ancient secrets. Mathias's dark past is perhaps a bit over obviously hinted at but his running to clear his head and relieve tension is a great plot device, and the landscapes are absolutely stunning.

As a great ann cleeves fan, this show really disappointed me. I found it long winded and muddled and couldn't always understand the Scottish accents. Dead Water in series 2 was so boring I fell asleep watching it. Spectacular scenery isn't enough to make a good tv show!

An eerie, haunting show that changed the way I think about love, death and human personality. It obsessed me, I couldn't stop thinking about it. Never seen anything quite like it, a million miles above your average supernatural drama. The only show coming anywhere near it for strangeness is Sapphire And Steele.

This is the most fantastic crime show I have ever watched, like Sherlock Holmes crossed with the marquis de sade. Incredibly atmospheric, brilliantly acted, it gave me nightmares. You must watch it!

A fantastic show, at once amusing, intriguing and wise. True to the spirit of the 1950s with its strange mixture of innocence and prejudice. And so refreshing to have a detective who doesn't have a broken marriage and a drink problem. Miss maple in a cassock! With Sid as an unusual romantic lead.

This is the ultimate sci fi show. If you think you're paranoid, watch this! Tho I prefer the straightforward paranormal stories to the aliens, it's all great. The interplay between molder and scully is brilliant, and I know several people just like the lone gunmen . . .

4 brilliantly contrasted main characters. But when Jack left at the end of season 9 that seriously undermined the balance of the show, and Brian leaving at the end of series 10 killed it. Great minor characters, especially Gerry's daft ex wives, sandra's ghastly mother and Brian's dogs.

A fantastic film, mysterious, moving and very atmospheric. The children are totally real, not ghastly Disney caricatures.

Brilliant, haunting, not a police drama and shouldn't be judged as such, not even really modern Swedish noir, MARCELLA's true roots lie in the b/w noir films of the 1940's. Tormented heroines, mysterious transformations, doomed, paranoid mood, wild expressionist camera work .. Her rage and amnesia episodes mean she doesn't need to be literally changed into a panther like the cursed heroine of CAT PEOPLE, and she is as obsessed with her cases as the detective with Laura' s portrait in LAURA and the equally childlike hero of THE ROCKINGHORSE WINNER with his quest. Marcella alternates between being detective, victim and possible killer as her mood changes.

Just watched it again after it first came out years ago. Haunting, hypnotic, couldn't stop watching it. Made me intensely aware of how we are all saturated with the ghosts of the past, our past, everyone's past. The photo collection is a liminal place where past and present merge in an endless dance.