Suspect

We have come to like James Nesbitt, whose face resembles a chunk of hard road that broke off & landed in a ditch. This show starts (it's no secret) with him as a cop visiting a morgue, greeted by an unenthusiastic lab tech and discovering the corpse under consideration is, in fact, his own daughter. I want to share a tidbit with you. Nesbitt thereupon tears up and lets out a grievous wail. Where does THIS come from?

Nesbitt, no doubt, borrowed the device from Lear- last Act when the aged King carries dead Cordelia in his arms. 'Howl howl howl howl.. O you are men of stones. Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so heaven's vaults should crack.. ' (I think-- my high school Shakespeare is decades ago!). So, Nesbitt pulled this out of his hat! Lear is 'unactable', of course-- especially THAT scene! But Olivier and Finney have done clinics with their own interpretation. Nesbitt 'tries it on!' (Wondering if anyone would make the cinnection?)

The series may be a but slow, but Nesbitt always shines, if you stick with him. 7/10.

Nothing rose above the weird eyebrows on James Nesbit in this repetitive series. We know he has alopecia - which can be a challenge- but just get a good makeup artist so the overly-black distracting brows could blend in with the rest of James' face!

The ridiculous coincidences where Nesbit's character just happens upon all the people he's looking for just throws me more out of my suspension of disbelief. Then add the daughter sparkling and smiling and encouraging from the beyond... well I didn't even finish watching the thing.

There's a little fun ridiculing every ridiculous conversation followed by an outburst of Nesbit's constant smoldering rage... but a VERY little I'm afraid. Skip it, I say.

But I am mesmerised by JN incredibly dark eyebrows, they give him the look of Ming the merciless and Griff Rhys Jones!

I am enjoying his portrayal of burnt out policeman grieving the death of his daughter and the mystery of her life!

I've watched 4 episodes so far but I am struggling with it as I am feeling quite bored. I want to continue as I like James Nesbitt in most things, but there is something about this that stops it from holding my attention and I've probably missed some key dialogue in the fourth one by only half concentrating on it.

I am sticking with it because I want to see Sam Heughan, who I love in Outlander, but that is really now the only reason I'm not giving up on it.

One reviewer completely misses the point when criticising there generally only being 2 people in each episode. That's the premise of the show! It's a decent concept which clearly worked in covid times of filming. Give it a chance and ignore the low scores.