Traces

This is an okay show with a good plot but the one glaring issue is the lead who plays Emma, she looks about 14 years old and can't act or at least very well, she's flat and emotionless.

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.

No emotion in the protagonists voice,same in everything she does.So monotone and her facial expressions are always the same. Stuck with it just to know the outcome.

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.

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.