I've watched all three series and I have to say I am still waiting for something really meaty and truly interesting. I find it all very pretentious and affected - the storylines, dialogues, the acting of the regular cast and the guest actors.
I don't get absorbed into any of the stories because I find them so far fetched. And there's always a bunch of young inexperienced actors PLAYING around with whatever story is that week. Not convincing.
I loved Marc Warren in Hustle. And I've seen him in a bunch of other things. But this is beneath his talent. He comes across so wooden. What's with him and his on off girlfriend - he keeps telling her to bog off yet she keeps coming back - even interrupting a meeting - it just would not happen. How would the "bad guy" know where he lived??? The whole thing is simply ridiculous.
I want to like the cast, I really do but I just don't. The two young newbies are - sorry I keep using this word but they are so unbelievable. And Mamie McCoy acts all tough and dare I say it arrogant - and her hair is always perfectly tousled. Just stop it! All style and no substance. She acted like this in the Musketeers too altho' there it didn't rub me up the wrong way.
Also what is with them using the cafe for their debriefs where the dodgy customers can look at what they're doing and throw in their quips at how to solve the crimes??? And there's barely anyone ever in this cafe so how does it stay open??? Again, PRETENTIOUS!