NCS: Manhunt

How nice to see sooooo many fine British actors making complete idiots of themselves in this programme! It was laughably bad. The Comic Strip couldn't have made a better job of sending up the genre! If you didn't know it was supposed to be serious, you'd have sworn it was a spoof.

I enjoyed seeing the non-Poirot Suchet. It may not be an extraordinary film, but it was certainly worth watching it. We taped it first, and when we began to watch the first part, we could not stop as we first intended, but we kept watching the second part till the end.

It baffles me that people think this is 'rubbish'. I throughly enjoyed this too-short series and would certainly like to see it again (a lost gem, like MURDER CITY or MAYO, really.). Nicely written, well-performed, well produced and directed and in its basic premise somewhat different from the routine policier.

OK, so it could be justifiably criticised as 'unrealistic' but good grief NONE of the TV police dramas is in any sense realistic, they're all sort of what-if alternate-world (sometimes wish-fulfilment) versions of law enforcement. NCS had a bizarre and quirky charm, almost like the whole team were working on the barely-legal fringes of government. And, for me anyway, it had the great advantage of being British. I think I have seen enough American television shows.