For months I've been hearing raving reviews about this show. I finally tought, ok, I'll give it a try as I am a fan of classic police crime shows. I have watched the complete first season now and will not go on watching.
Reasons for that are
:
1. What the hell is wrong with the camera man? Did they engage a pigeon to film this? What about this steady shaking and zooming in and out? Even in scenes where everything is supposed to be steady, like, when people are sitting at their desks talking? It really spolied this for me and I have no idea what the idea is behind it. Make it feel more realistic? Seriously, no one watching anything in real life would shake their head all the time like that unless they had a severe illness.
2.About the show itself: I did not like or remotely identify with any of the characters. They all seem cold, stale, no background story, nothing likeable about any of the characters, not the main characters, and not side characters. They all seem like horrible people and after having watched a whole season I know nothing about the main investigators, only everything about Gates, who I can't stand either.
3. Why would I want to watch this? It's about unlikable people at the police, combined with the worst scum out there. Why would I want to want to watch nasty children and drug addicts beating a man with down syndrome and peeing into his plants? Why would I want to watch a 10-year-old boy repeatedly saying 'bastard' to everyone and torturing a policeman? Why would I want to watch a horrible man (Gates) strangling his poor dog, who was only hurt in the first place because he is a complete, arrogant and vain human failure on two legs?
This show just made me uncomfrotable, I didn't like anyone, I didn't get any kind of background info about the characters, and I was shown brutality and human nastiness par excellence, all with this ever shaking bl 00dy camera which gave me a headache after a while.
Sad to say that there indeed are excellent actors in this show, like Dunbar, and obviously later Keeley Hawes etc. But the show itself is just made like 'The Sun' in TV-show format, no thanks.
2.About the show itself: I did not like or remotely identify with any of the characters. They all seem cold, stale, no background story, nothing likeable about any of the characters, not the main characters, and not side characters. They all seem like horrible people and after having watched a whole season I know nothing about the main investigators, only everything about Gates, who I can't stand either.
3. Why would I want to watch this? It's about unlikable people at the police, combined with the worst scum out there. Why would I want to want to watch nasty children and drug addicts beating a man with down syndrome and peeing into his plants? Why would I want to watch a 10-year-old boy repeatedly saying 'bastard' to everyone and torturing a policeman? Why would I want to watch a horrible man (Gates) strangling his poor dog, who was only hurt in the first place because he is a complete, arrogant and vain human failure on two legs?
This show just made me uncomfrotable, I didn't like anyone, I didn't get any kind of background info about the characters, and I was shown brutality and human nastiness par excellence, all with this ever shaking bl 00dy camera which gave me a headache after a while.
Sad to say that there indeed are excellent actors in this show, like Dunbar, and obviously later Keeley Hawes etc. But the show itself is just made like 'The Sun' in TV-show format, no thanks.