The Crow Girl

I wasn't sure about this series after EP 1. But things got going after that and what a ride it was.

I thoroughly enjoyed the crow girl. It really held me.

The series has quite a few things going on at once. You've got misdirection and red herrings thrown in for good measure.

The leads are excellent. Support is very good too.

Maybe the most unconvincing is the doctor but there's a reason for that.

The series avoids getting bogged down in internal and family politics. Yes there's some in there but they never get intrusive.

I'm Really looking forward to the second season.

I originally thought it was a self contained one off series.

Thankfully it's not.

Can't wait for season 2.

The Crow Girl evidence great storytelling with a powerful cast. The lead actress Eve Myles ( my favorite Welsh actress. I will watch anything she appears in). The Crow Girl had me enthralled from the very beginning of episode one. It's methodical and sneaks upon you. It's a thinking person series. Now watching episode two. This series has a range of interesting storylines, murder, incest, and trauma i. E., mental illness. I'm excited to see the conclusion and the outcome of these three story lines and their interconnections.

Watching and enjoying. No disappointment here.

What do you get if you take Eve Myles's Faith from Keeping Faith and Dougray Scott's DI Ray Lennox from Crime and send them to Bristol? You get The Crow Girl!

Maybe I am too cynical these days and Police shows have to have the smart talking main character detective who plays fast and loose, they put their work above all else including their family, then there needs to be the incompetent police sidekicks who have to be told to do everything, and the stern boss who berates the main character but relents when they see that the unconventional methods are working, so if you're into that then take a peek at this.

To be fair the wife liked it, I found it frustrating in the first episode but then it did get quite creepy in terms of the subject matter.

Ultimately it's OK in the grand scheme, you could do worse, like watching a Harlan Coban adaptation.

I liked it until the final episode where the policewoman (who until then seemed like a fine detective) turns into a complete idiot. She first totally screws up the arrest of a not so kosher colleague. Then she needs to be looking for someone she thinks is a killer but instead goes to the shrink involved to drink her personal' sorrows away. Very unprofessional. She must also know that more people are at risk of being targeted by the killer, but she doesn't really seem to care. I'm sure that the actress must have been very disappointed when she read the last episode of the script but by then it was probably too late to get out of it.

I truly do not want to give anything away here. Others have criticised The Crow Girl for having too many plot lines that don't all get wrapped up... but that is what season 2 is for? Weird thing to pick apart really, since this is not a standalone movie.

The first 2-3 episodes are a quite slow and challenging to watch, but it's all worth it for the plot twist towards the end. Usually I see things coming from a mile away but not this one. It's extraordinarily well done whilst at the same time you'll be kicking yourself for not figuring it out in the first place.

In other news: Eve Myles is bloody brilliant in this. Great actor.