This was really a slow episode. It had your typical race-baiting and edgy dialogue that sometimes works and is effective and other times feels forced and seems to only appear because this show is on pay cable. They're doing a good job covering the chaos of the time, but give us some more action please.
2 Reviews
Episode 3
Prismark104 June 2017
Pence's vision of brutal policing is not getting results. A rival force is sniffing around and want to take over the case. It is left to DI Cullen (Daniel Mays) to have some ideas of his own, which are less blunt than Pence's.
The series does try to portray Pence as not being an out and out racist with his complex relationship with the black informer and the child he has with her.
At least the problems the police were facing was more interesting than the debate between Marxism, Maoism, Quebecois separatism or Continental European leftism which really slowed the episode down.
The gang have moved to a safe house but cracks form between Jas and Marcus. Jas is more radical and after spending time with the German extremists, she wants action. Marcus is more content to write his manifesto. At the end he realises it is Jas's voice he needs.
The series does try to portray Pence as not being an out and out racist with his complex relationship with the black informer and the child he has with her.
At least the problems the police were facing was more interesting than the debate between Marxism, Maoism, Quebecois separatism or Continental European leftism which really slowed the episode down.
The gang have moved to a safe house but cracks form between Jas and Marcus. Jas is more radical and after spending time with the German extremists, she wants action. Marcus is more content to write his manifesto. At the end he realises it is Jas's voice he needs.
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