Great British Cop Series

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The Acorn TV Channel (available on Amazon Prime Video) specializes in European crime series and movies. Accompanying the current trend, there is a lot of movies from Nordic countries.

LONDON KILLS is an original Acorn TV series made in England chronicling the crimes investigated by an elite group of detectives from the London Police.

Although each episode tells a specific story, the backdrop involves the mysterious disappearance of the Chief of Police's wife.

In addition to showing beautiful landscapes in London, LONDON KILLS has a very different feature from the other series of the genre: it assumes a documentary tone, almost as if it were one of the programs on real crimes.

British actor Hugo Speer (from NINFOMANIAC 1, THE FULL MONTY and THE INTERPRETER) interprets DI (Detective Inspector) David Bradford, who resumes his post after the trauma of his wife's disappearance, still under investigation by another unity. The Scottish Sharon Small (of ABOUT A BOY) makes DS (Detective Sergeant) Vivienne Cole, candidate to boss if the former leader did not return so soon of his absence. And the desglamurized Bailey Patrick and Tori Allen Martin make the team as DC (Detective Constable) Rob Brady and TDC (Trainee Detective Constable) Billy Fitzgerald.

The tense relations of the working group always submitted to a gigantic pressure is another very interesting subject focused in each case.

LONDON KILLS is not only very good at watching, but it incorporates the most modern trends to be seen in the next few years in the TV series about cops.

score 8/10

campos-8 12 March 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4718870/