Traces

Realistic portrayal as actors look & behave like ordinary people (not models). Forensics, a central vehicle in the storyline, are extensive & accurately well thought out.

It's a great story very entertaining but that lead actress is just so annoying there's something about the way she talks and acts is super annoying I wish they had a different actress and it would've been amazing.

Emma returns to Dundee after years in Manchester, to take up a new job, she soon learns that there is a link with her job, and her mother's murder.

This series really does take a bit of time to warm up, it is luke warm for spells, but the final two episodes are excellent. You could lose it in the middle, but I urge you to stick with it, as if does eventually deliver.

I must have watched Part one when it first aired on Alibi, but not gotten into it, however when it was put out on The BBC, I got into it. It improves in Part two when Martin Compston appears.

Episode one is so important, you will need lots of information from it, so if you're watching this for the first time, you need to concentrate.

The acting is very good, plenty of strong performances here, but it's Vincent Regan who steals it, ahead of Compston, Regan cuts one very menacing figure.

It's an up and down journey, but ultimately it's worth sticking with, 7/10.

I'm giving this 7 out of 10 because although I found it enjoyable, the actress playing Emma seemed so wrong for the role. As others have said, she looks too young, is monotone, and it felt more as though she was in an early rehearsal for the role rather than the finished product.

I like Martin Compston and Laura Fraser, and have always enjoyed other productions when they are in the cast - and the actor playing the detective could flirt with me if he wanted to! Both seasons were good, I binge-watched it while working on a craft project, so being focused on that - plus the rest of the cast being good - was what probably helped me to stick with it despite the just-so-wrong Emma.

Great storyline, plenty of twists. However the lead actress is wrongly cast. Appears too young to fit the character and lacks facial emotion, so it irratated throughout.