Good to see old favs, but too many generic characters

Redoubt_Rogue

The good -

Long playtime, coming in at an hour and a half
Excellent guests - Charlotte Ritchie,Caroline Catz, Hugh Dennis, Robert Lindsay...
Interesting mystery's

The Bad -


** Some of the characters are RIDICULOUSLY generic. James Murray's Superintendent doesn't need to exist. He shows up in his BMW to a crime scene, shakes his hair like a model in a beer commercial and tries to keep the police from doing their job ... He never apologizes ... Someone wrote that character in 1982 and this show is still using him.


** Tala Gouveia's holds her own, but her character really shouldn't exist today either. If you're brash and young fine, but they've had her attack her co-lead in both episodes and nothing has ever come of it. Just imagine being at work and seeing a supervisor screaming at a subordinate and saying "No, wonder your wife left you!" and nothing happens ... just a stupid and a cheap way to build drama with no follow through. You want to make that scene real? Send her to 6 weeks diversity training after that little BS stunt.

score 5/10

Redoubt_Rogue 12 September 2020

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6088517/