Leonieruth

Hoped with the cast it would be good but even Samuel L Jackson, Kate Dickie and John Sessions couldn't rescue this poor excuse of a very derivative thriller. All good actors but not in this. We have a predictably flawed detective with a reason to keep going off half cocked and wading into bad situations without "waiting for backup" or moping around feeling sorry for himself and an equally flawed American detective blustering his way into the investigation and drink driving through Edinburgh with no repercussions. The plot was weak and the solution was obvious from about halfway through. Hopefully the ending is not setting us up for a sequel, I barely made it through the 98 minute running time.

I endured all episodes of this dire offering from the BBC. One and a half episodes in and I really didn't care what happened to any of the two dimensional characters, by episode three I was skip watching just to get to the end. The flimsy storyline revolves around the lengths to which the female protagonist will go to get revenge on the man who killed her brother many years previously; the whys and wherefores of which are never fully explained. She is a teacher, so supposedly intelligent; but her actions become increasingly ridiculous as she twitters, cries copious amounts of tears into copious amounts of wine and lurches from one unbelievable situation to the next whilst dragging her equally stupid friend along for the ride. By a strange coincidence her husband; also a teacher; teaches the son the man and there seems to be some kind of never goes anywhere subplot involving the two of them. And then we are treated to an ending that is so bad it is laughable. The whole thing is made worse by the poor acting, the dire dialogue and the lack of any resolution or explanation of the subplots. This series falls well short of taut thriller status. If you want a good "revenge stalking" thriller try Red Road instead.