"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....
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Broadchurch
Another murder-mystery-thriller? Yep. This one at least doesn't throw up a gallery of weirdo suspects, like its opposite number on the BBC, and it appears to be moving faster, although it has eight episodes so there's plenty of opportunity to drop the pace.
Hope not, it's a great cast and the inevitable secrets that bubble up are at least not signposted in a size even the short-sighted can easily see. Nonetheless, at the risk of being descended on by a posse of Tennant fans, we have to say that he didn't really look convincing in the police appeal at the end of the episode. He doesn't look like any detective we've seen speaking on the television news, and he certainly didn't sound like one, promising the killer that they would be caught no matter what. That's what's known as setting yourself up to fail, and even an archetypal PC Plod would surely avoid that old chestnut.
Labels:
andrew buchan,
Broadchurch,
David Tennant,
Drama,
ITV,
Jodie Whittaker,
Olivia Colman,
review,
UK,
Vicky McClure
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