Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Tweekums When the remains of prostitute are found in Manchester a fifteen year old case is reopened and former policewoman Claire Church, who worked on the original case and knew the victim, is asked to leave her new home in the Hebrides to help with the case. At first she isn't keen to get involved but when another woman is killed in an almost identical manner she agrees. This means working alongside her ex-lover DCI John Hind. As the story unfolds suspects emerge and Claire starts to think that the latest murder was committed by a survivor of the original killer rather than the original killer himself.This four-part drama is clearly trying to emulate successful Scandinavian crime dramas such as 'The Killing'… unfortunately it doesn't succeed. The case itself is interesting enough but the idea that a retired officer would be brought back and take such a leading role in the case seems highly unlikely… almost as unlikely as the number of times she goes back and forth between the Hebrides and Manchester. The fact that Claire had had a relationship with DCI Hind was an unnecessary cliché as was the way we are made to think that her part in the investigation is putting her family in Scotland in danger. Much of this could be forgiven if the ending had been better… without spoiling it; this was probably the weakest point of the series. On the plus side I thought the main cast did a good enough job with the material and the scenes in the Hebrides looked lovely. Overall a disappointing series that failed to live up to its potential.

John Brown Yet again the Beeb has managed to produce a whacking great turkey. This is one massive bore from start to finish, full of supposedly meaningful looks and camera work, portentous noise (it can't be called music) and pretty well nothing else. The plot, such as it is, meanders around to little purpose, while the characters are caricatures and demand little attention and less interest. Each episode seems to be longer than the previous one, and the last seems to go on, and on, and on, like a bad bout of 'flu. As for the ending, when it finally arrives it's a blessing, even if it is horribly drawn out and utterly idiotic.As is so often the case, it's frequently difficult to tell who is who, so bland are the personalities, and the acting in general is as wooden as can be. It's full of angst and everyone has 'issues'; what it doesn't have is any significant amount of detective work or suspense. It's rubbish, and the sooner I hear that it's been consigned to the dustbin of history, the better.

i-campbell343 Poor direction and characters you cannot empathise with. There are plot holes too.Final insult. The ending cuts off. So you have no idea what happens with the two main characters. Sadly, you don't really care. You are just depressed you will never get those four hours back.If anyone knows the writer, director, producer etc – please tear out the last 10 pages of their current book so they know how we all feel. And punch them in the face too. ThanksBBC – what were you thinking?

robertoakley This series was set to knock Downton off the top spot. Unfortunately, a disjointed plot that may as well have been 4 separate unconnected hour long vignettes. The ridiculous scene where they go to the suspects house and terrorise their family, coupled with the female moriarty type figure who goes from victim to world class counter-surveillance operative was stretching the plot to its limits.Where did the fat beardy bloke who perpetrated the actual crime come from at the end? All over the place like a mad woman's proverbial. Failed to deliver on what was shaping up to be a brilliant series in the beginning. The ending was even worse. Anne-Marie Duff's character was supposed to be a damaged police officer, but the way that she was allowed to run amok in an investigation when clearly unstable was bonkers. This series made me sad, sad I tell you!