Code of Silence

I binged all 6 episodes in one day, loved it!

Code of Silence reminded me of Patience as well: a girl with a mundane job and a special talent helps the police.

But this time it's one case for the whole season. Loved that it was a robbery case, not the usual murder.

Rose Ayling-Ellis is super sweet. I guess she played the character really well: Alison desperately wants to prove herself, to show people that she's worth something. And oh my God, she's absolutely insufferable when she does what she's not supposed to do. I was almost screaming at the screen every time she put herself in danger. The suspense was killing me.

I haven't seen Kieron Moore before, but wow. He is annoyingly attractive and has that bad boy with a good soul vibe that makes heart of every female skip a bit.

The series turned a bit melodramatic in the end, but still hope there will be season 2.

Wanted to watch this with the wife. But unfortunately her hearing isn't great, so we rely on subtitles. But a show featuring a deaf person as the main character of all things, does not have subtitles. We can't play the volume too loud because we have children in the house, and the show does have some strong language. And still then, while the main actress makes an admirable effort, she is nonetheless at times hard to understand - even for someone with remarkably sharp hearing as myself and the volume up just fine. So had to stop watching 3/4 of the way through the first episode. If they ever sort out the subtitles, I'll watch the rest of this (with my wife hopefully) and return here to leave a proper review.

Out of the 2 recent crime dramas with deaf leads, this is the better one. Code Of Silence has a far fetched premise but is so honest with it we're up for the ride. Great cast helps a lot but it's the slow building romance hiding in plain sight that makes this show a stand out. The main characters are flawed and constantly asked to question their moral compass which makes for a very fun watch. Yes the ending is very silly and unbelievable but this must be the first time a crime drama builds its storyline around a blossoming and forbidden love. Season 2 please! And with the same leads if possible!

Code of silence.

ITV can be hit or miss with its dramas but this one's a hit.

We really enjoyed Code of Silence as it was a bit different for mainstream TV. The story is good enough to justify the show and even though it has more than its fair share of 'aye right' moments it doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment. The show is very well paced and there's no fillers like there are on Netflix.

Rose Ayling-Ellis holds the whole thing together brilliantly. She was absolutely convincing in her role as Alison. She's very likeable even though her character never does a thing she's told. Keiron Moore is also very convincing as Liam. All the main cast are good like Charlotte Ritchie and Andrew Buchan and all are convincing with only the odd one letting the side down. Most of the eff bombs are unnecessary and feel unnatural in places. We don't need them and British TV should not be influenced by the vulgarity plaguing US TV.

We watched on ITVX with the subtitles on even though neither of us are deaf or hard of hearing.

I hope there's a second series of this because we liked it.

I bingewatched the series over a couple of days.

The first episode was very good but then starts to slide into the same hum drum of many other dramas these days.

The premise of a deaf girl helping police in the cathedral city of Canterbury does seen rather similar to the recent Channel 4 series Patience which had an autistic girl helping police with their enquiries in the cathedral city of York a couple of months ago and it is only just over a month since Rose Ayling-Ellis appeared in Réunion on BBC 1 (she was also in Ludwig late last year set in the cathedral city of Cambridge).

You have to constantly watch the screen as there are a lot of subtitled parts but it wasn't totally engaging and really seemed to lose its way not knowing where the story was heading.

Itv's new liking for 6 part dramas can be a bit much for shows and this was no exception going on too long and included one officer having an affair which didn't really go anywhere in the story and then their was the robbery which really didn't make any practical sense.

Watchable but let's itself down.