"That Would Never Happen!" Dan and Ali write the real reviews of UK TV drama serials (stuff marketed as quality, if you please), telling it like it is rather than the my-mate's-the-director, I-get-party-invites, or the I-need-my-job reviews that often appear. Not to mention the I've-not-watched-it....
Saturday, 17 September 2011
DCI Banks
Could Stephen Tompkinson look any more lugubrious? We fell asleep. Woke up to a scene in a morgue: Banks, a charred body and a man brought in to identify it. Yes, he says, it's his daughter, but he then notices a wound in her head, explains he's a GP and launches into a forensic pathologist's explanation of how she died. Unsurprisingly, it involved heat. Rather more surprisingly, she still had a fairly decent head of hair. We fell asleep again....
Labels:
Adaptation,
Crime,
DCI Banks,
Drama,
John Bowe,
review,
Stephen Tompkinson,
TV,
UK
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