The Long Shadow (TV Mini Series) Episode #1.3 (2023) User Reviews

A quality episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 11 December 2023]

Another body is found, and this time The Police play a dangerous game, putting a Policewoman undercover. The killer's net has spread from Leeds to Bradford.

Was this the best episode to date? I think perhaps it was, several unsettling and genuinely uncomfortable moments, one thing you become aware of, the risks these poor women took, the violence they show here is shocking.

There seemed to be so many mishaps during this investigation, I'm not sure if The Police just didn't care about the victims, or if they just weren't equipped to find him, but there were so many needless deaths. Society just didn't seem to care about these women.

At times this was genuinely uncomfortable to watch, and after a somewhat poor first episode, I think they've turned things around a little.

Very well acted, very well made, very authentic feeling.

8/10.

Episode 3

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 22 October 2023]

In the old days if you got the heave ho. Your superior officer did not bring you into the office and told you in person that you were off the case. That would had been too namby pamby for the times.

As Dennis Hoban discovered in the previous episode and now Jim Hobson in this one. You turn up at a murder scene and find that your replacement tells you to get lost in no uncertain terms.

This is the kind of team spirit West Yorkshire police thought it needed to find a serial killer.

Now the murders have moved from Leeds to Bradford. Lo and behold the new victim was not even a prostitute, now the police are really angry and upset.

As Marcella Claxton finds out. Being black and wrongly thought of being a prostitute, her criminal injuries compensation claim is refused even though she is in great distress. Although so far she is the only victim the show can sympathetically portray because she survived the Yorkshire Ripper.

Once again the show is more interested in wanting to be a police procedural and it is not even that good at that.

For a show that wants to be about the victims, it also likes to show gratuitous violence against prostitutes.