Wolfe is a forensic crime drama from writer Paul Abbott.
It opens with Wolfe (Babou Ceesay) creepily breaking into his ex wife's house to see if she is having sex with someone else.
Later he is called into an incident in a factory. A man fell into a boning machine, leaving him half minced up.
A scene that is both grizzly and full of gristle.
The question is whether this was an accident or murder and there are at least two suspects.
One young man in the factory suddenly blurts out almost randomly that he injured one of the people who tried to gang rape his girlfriend.
It's the first example of the type of jumpy, jumbled up writing in the first episode. There was a sense of randomness regarding who turned out to be the murderer and why it was done.
It really did not make much sense. I actually thought that maybe I missed something or Sky missed some scenes in the finished product.
The chase scene at the end was inept.
Wolfe and his team are of course brilliant. There is a scene where he lectures to students in an erudite and humorous way. Something that never happened to me in all my years of university education.
No offence, but going by the first episode. The state of play is that Abbott has shamelessly taken the Sky money and recklessly delivered a half baked series.
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