Better
- TV Series
- 2023
- 59m
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6.5/10
3.3K
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A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.
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Did she ever do a days work?
Good series but plot holes all over the place. And the script kept twisting making the characters act completely different from episode to episode. Poor Ceri didn't know if he was coming or going.
But there was some rough justice and gritty plot lines. Makes you realise there is an underworld out there and if you get caught on the wrong side your life can get dictated and controlled by it - no easy options.
The final scene was UK police all over.
If I was watching this again I would focus on the non main characters because they are the ones that played their parts so well and didn't have to flip flop.
Good series but plot holes all over the place. And the script kept twisting making the characters act completely different from episode to episode. Poor Ceri didn't know if he was coming or going.
But there was some rough justice and gritty plot lines. Makes you realise there is an underworld out there and if you get caught on the wrong side your life can get dictated and controlled by it - no easy options.
The final scene was UK police all over.
If I was watching this again I would focus on the non main characters because they are the ones that played their parts so well and didn't have to flip flop.
Good cop gone bad variation. A good cast, especially the lead roles. Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch) is particularly excellent in his role as drug gang leader. Not seen much of Leila Farzad but she does well as the detective Lou Slack who is playing both sides. Also nice to see Anton Lesser (Endeavour) in a different kind of role.
It all starts off a bit on the slow side but picks up in episode 2. This is not a shoot em up cop drama but more of a slow slide into a moral dilemma. The deeper detective Slack slides into the vortex of corrupt cop the tenser it gets.
My only gripe with the programme is that, for me, it should have ended at episode 4.
That, to my mind, would have been a perfect and more realistic, ending.
Episode 5 tried too hard to tie up loose ends and ended up unnecessary and unrealistic.
That said, it was definitely worth a watch.
Ignore the unfair critics who have rubbished this programme.
It all starts off a bit on the slow side but picks up in episode 2. This is not a shoot em up cop drama but more of a slow slide into a moral dilemma. The deeper detective Slack slides into the vortex of corrupt cop the tenser it gets.
My only gripe with the programme is that, for me, it should have ended at episode 4.
That, to my mind, would have been a perfect and more realistic, ending.
Episode 5 tried too hard to tie up loose ends and ended up unnecessary and unrealistic.
That said, it was definitely worth a watch.
Ignore the unfair critics who have rubbished this programme.
This was good. For the first four episodes. Great to see Leeds, good acting by Leila Farzad and Andrew Buchan. Interesting take on the police drama. After the first four good episodes, we were excited to see how it ended. Only to find a completely implausible ending, which totally ruined our enjoyment of the previous episodes. It would have been better if we'd just watched 1-4 and it had ended there, with Lou never quite sure whether they would come for her for the rest of her life. That would have been believable. The conclusion provided by episode 5 was no. Disappointed and felt a bit cheated.
Whilst I found this so engrossing that I binge watched all episodes (finishing at 5am). I have to say that the ending was amateurish, sentimental and totally unbelievable. I won't provide details of this let down because I was so engrossed until then that I would not wish to spoil it for others. MYOMU. Now.... I've actually said all I have to say but apparently in order to post any review I am supposed to write a minimum of 600 (superfluous?) characters! Why? Is there no merit in brevity and clarity over indulgent pomposity? (Answers appreciated but not required)😊.....OMG!!! I thought I had attained the minimum requirement already....but apparently not. Now trying again. Thank you for your patience in matching my persistence!🤣
Well worth a watch. People saying the acting is poor are speaking too broadly. Most performances are good, except the cop's son who is not great. Anton Lesser is excellent as the retired bent cop; but then he is always good. It is a good story, some complexity to the characters, nobody is one dimensional. I don't really understand the really low raters. Not sure why Anton Lesser does not even feature in the IMDB cast list as he is the best thing in it. I didn't feel the accents were forced, I don't think any of the actors were using anything but their normal speaking voices. Make your own mind up.
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