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After finishing this mini-series and reading many of the reviews, I'm convinced most were written by 14-year old boys with the attention span of sparrows. This is as well written, acted, directed, and produced as anything available to stream. Just stay with it, and you'll not be disappointed.

I'm not sure if this is a serious drama or a black comedy.

On the up side the production values are quite high.

On the downside, the plot is ridiculous. Coincidence piles on coincidence and there are clichés all over the shop A missing man is spotted in a glimpsed dark photo?

Everyone seems connected to the same events or locations The main character who has fled her past just seems to be round the corner from her old haunts.

The dancing psychos seem out of a different movie.

James Nesbitt's policeman is always watchable but is surely playing this for laughs albeit with a straight face .

His dialogue with his partner and ex wife is actually a high spot, whereas the aging copper who hates tech and his overkeen boss are just too predictable.

To round out the clichés there is a sleazy club with a manageress who has a heart of gold .

Richard armitage is a burned out down on his luck photographer.

Oh and Eddie Izzard plays a kindly uncle / junkie lawyer operating out of a pet shop. But without the humour or flair of a Saul Goodman.

The Americanisms (pro bono lawyers, huge basements, 17 year olds driving about by themselves) come thick and fast..did noone from the UK adapt the script?

Regardless... The relatively high production values and the strong cast make this watchable (just about).

It's alright, but it's not great by any standards.

I've read a few reviews on here. Read them whilst watching. It nearly put me off finishing this especially as in the earlier episodes it did lag slightly. As you get further on towards the end it does get your attention and you do keep watching because you simply have to know what's happened. When you find out what's happened you'll be surprised. Certainly never guessed any of that ending at all.

Good strong cast. Good strong performances. You do invest yourself in James Nesbitt and Sarah Parish in particular.

The two 'killing eve' types are certainly frightening to watch if not very clever.

Worth a binge if you like mystery who done it.

How many ex spies/assassins/trained killers/hookers/ mob enforcers are there in your PTA meeting? If television and mystery writers are to be believed, there are thousand of them picking up young Madison or Dakota from soccer practice right now. They are just hiding their pasts until some hapless yokel attacks them, and out comes the karate and the gun slinging.

In this case, Megan is happily ensconced in her new life as a mother and wife when she gets a visit from an old friend. The audience only has to wait one episode before Megan beats the crap out of a couple of bad guys and two episodes before she meets up with the delightful Eddie Izard as one of her old running buddies.

Unfortunately, there isn't enough Eddie Izard to.get over all the cliches that drag this series. The rest of it bounces between "predictable" and "why am I wasting my time?"

Although the acting was fine, the whole show was so blandly familiar that I gave up.

The "5" is for any series with Eddie.

The whole idea of the series is based on such an absurd assumption that it's hard to accept anything else. Main character decides to disappear and change her life completely out of fear for her life. That's why she decides to stay in the same city. And lives there for decades without any issues. And cut.

If you can swallow that one - the rest is easy peasy. Even the dancing assassins that have accidentally crossed over from another movie.