Deadline

I felt generous when I gave it 3 stars. A total waste of 4 hours of my life. I won't be watching a repeat. I had no sympathy for any of the characters and frankly wonder why they wasted any time making it! I sat through it only because I'm a companion to someone who's deaf and often needs help with understanding.

From the London establishing shots, the music and the bizarre first meeting this lumbering tortoise will never overtake the hare. Have seen both James D'Arcy and Charlie Murphy before and enjoyed their work. Here though they are given but scraps to work with, they make headway, but are crucified by the idea of 'interview as exposition'. The first quarter of this series is clumsily burnt with extraneous groundwork. We have a vapid hook at the end, but do not care since after a tortuous episode we have not been invited to invest in these characters.

I was enjoying this up until the last episode which was so excruciatingly irritating, full of plot holes and totally unsatisfying to the viewer.

I really feel completely conned by the ridiculous conclusion to this story!

It just made no sense.

I share the reviews already published about the stupidity of this story - especially the ridiculous final episode.

The lead is supposed to be an experienced investigative journalist but made errors that would not be made by such a person in real life.

Like others who have commented, I found the ending simply unbelievable..

Starts off really well in fact the first three episodes are excellent and then we come to the final episode and wow, it all goes very wrong ! The plot and backstory become very convoluted and confusing and to my absolute amazement, I didn't even bother watching the end. It's not like me to give up on a movie/ drama but it really did become lost and and an earlier night in bed was more appealing! S such a shame as the acting is excellent I'm so surprised that anybody thought this final episode would have a cut the mustard! Disappointing.