Series 1-4 were wonderful. All scored really well. Of course I want to watch SO5.
There are 2 episodes to go so perhaps not the whole story... but enough me thinks.
The characters, created by Ann Cleeves, were very credible in the first 4 series - compeling at times so I was eager for more.
For SO5 I would score this way:
- very good story basis
- delivery of action 1
There is simply too much missing to make this performance credible, one eg.
(spoiler) when Perez's car is rammed within millimeters of total disaster no one follows it up; yet that was the first physical link to the suspects who were proving heavyweight (the basic emotion of human traffickers is the willingness to kill).
Thrown into the mix are a number of romantic sub-plots, a crazed African woman and just ignorance of the procedures of policing ( why of earth would a trained officer hand over a biro and paper to the arrested man?)
My feeling is that whoever had this directed/ produced was hoping to ride of the success of 1 - 4 but the script writing is hopeless. Too bad - I really liked those characters, also the ones Ann Cleeves created for the series Vera.
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