Gracepoint

All I have to say is that David Tennant with an American accent is the least intimidating thing I've ever heard. I was way more scared when he would yell on Broadchurch. But him saying "WHO CALLED THE REPORTER" in Gracepoint? just makes me laugh. Like ok David you tried. Lol. You sound like Michael Scott

Why do you Americans always have to make a bad verision on uk shows face it the uk is better at music tv shows America has had a lot of good movies so have we just don't copy a British film. In Gracepoint it is the exact same as broadchurch I'm so annoyed

Just watch the original. this is just a sad knock off. why can't americans watch british television? can't believer he took the exact same role as the detective. silly all around.

But watchable and entertaining if not a top-rate thriller with the acclaimed character range, complexity, atmosphere and acting chops Broadchurch brought to this genre. Then most shows touted as Broadchurch quality aren't.

David Tenant's detective is intentionally charmless and interpersonally challenged. His partner would be fired in real life for her sappy lack of professionalism as, though repeatedly warned, she keeps advocating for the family. And none of the lesser roles are very interesting.

Love the beachy town. Plot fairly involving. Nick Nolte does an entirely credible job playing an old geezer while the young journalists could be played by anybody nice looking.

I find it irritating, in reality too, that the family vs police theme revolves around their resentment at not being let inside all the investigative operations, thinking, discoveries. Police don't help because they refuse to explain exactly why total transparency is out of the question, their liason is equally ill-equipped to field family's frustration, and at times, detectives promise to keep them abreast when to do so risks undermining attempts to find the culprit and could jeopordize a future court case.

More than half way through I can't yet predict who done it though I can spot some red herrings.

If you are a Tennant fan and can suspend the obvious comparison to Broadchurch, by which this version is a hands-down impoverished relative, give Gracepoint a chance. Undemanding, rather bland fare, but not as awful as some critics claim.

I based my review on that the story was interesting. Of course, few ripoffs are as good as the original. In this case, the bad acting of a few actors were what I deducted points for. Anna Gunn was terrible and unbelievable. It wasn't just the acting it was her acting or lack thereof. Also, Jessica Lucas, who played the out of town reporter was one-note. Madalyn Horcher, who played the sister of the murdered boy wasn't good but since she's young maybe she will improve. The worst actor cast was Jack Irvine, who played Anna Gunn's character's son, who was completely wooden and for most of the time had a blank stare that was bizarre that anyone looking at him IMO couldn't have ignored but they did. The rest of the actors were either good or fine for the roles. David Tennant was great and also the actress who played the mother of the dead boy, Virginia Kull, and Nick Nolte were very good. It's worth watching but casting should have IMO done a much better job.