Fi Thompson

The actual story itself was good. (It would have made a fabulous book as would have had so much detail, sadly this wasnt an adaptation from a book), but the screenplay was woeful. More holes in the plot than a high quality teabag. They certainly went to great pains to get the nessage across that she was not that intelligent, and yet in the last episode we are suddenly expected to believe she possesed powers of sleuthing Columbo would be in awe of. Searching companies house for addresses of the car showroom business? Going to visit the previous owner. Persuading him on the doorstep to chat about how he got off a charge by purgery? If the people he was talking about were oh so dangerous as hr said , yes of course he was going to tell all. Not. She could have been an undercover police detective for all he knew and sure as heck would not have let that little gem out, except for Angelas new found ace powers of persuasion he just couldnt hekp himself. Oh perlease! Then of course Angela must have looked up the court case, found out who this gang of serious criminals were, found out where they operated and gone along and told them, whilst also throwing the guy whos door she knocked on also under the bus at the same time. The whole series did very little indeed to help awareness of people who are in violent coercive control relationships. Showed very little of what hell that can be day in day out. The only thing it did show was that her husband was very much a psychotic piece of work. Thats about it. Started so promising, left way too many questions unanswered. The only surprise at the end is that the ending although way out there unbelievable was not as bad as I thought it was going to end up being,

They took the rest of the newest series of Vera off for this??? You could seriously drop off to sleep just after the start, wake up just near the end of the episode and you really wouldnt notice you had missed anything. Like a hybrid of Spooks, mixed with a teeny bit of Ultimate Force & a touch of the good old Danger UXB tv series with Anthony Andrews from way back in the 1970s, (and that one had way more suspense and drama than this does). Do yourself a favour if looking for something to watch prime time on a Sunday evening till this painful series is over - go find a good box set from a streaming service to get your teeth into.

Love this show. A fabulous roller coaster of a ride with a few added curve balls along the way. Blink and you would miss some of the tiniest hints of what is really going on, who knows who, who knows what, and an entangled web that just continues to grow and spread. You find yourself invested in the characters for varying reasons, even those way in the background. Kaley Cuocos' transition from Penny to Cassie is seamless, there is not a moment throughout where you would ever even think of comparing the roles. So glad the book was made into this and not a movie. A movie could never have done the writing justice as this has. Impeccably filmed. An absolute must see.