Looking Good Dead

To me, deviant sex and dismembered bodies do not constitute entertainment. After 15 minutes I turned it off.

Casting ethnic characters by virtue of positive discrimination is still racism.

Can someone please explain the ferry "suicide" as it makes no sense to me how they discover some other name was used to disembark? I know they check the names of passengers getting on but they don't at the other end and the person involved could not have boarded twice under different names.

I had high hopes for this show and this episode isn't bad at all. In fact, it's a tightly wound bit of suspense and drama. But the Amit Shah character makes so many idiotic choices, coupled with the police acting as if they're totally ignorant of modern computers, especially the internet, laptops and cameras, that suspension of disbelief is almost impossible. It would have been easy to write a tighter, more believable script but it looks like corners have been cut. Either that, or the writers of this show are not as skilled as I would have hoped.

Ridiculous story with a hint of salacious titillation, riddled with magic plot holes stretching credulity to breaking. Outrageously overdrawn characters sitting around earnestly dumping exposition and opaque gobbledy gook onto one another.

The cast is strong, yet the acting is generally weak and even John Simm cannot elevate it from the gutter. It should be halved in duration, which might make it watchable enough for me to care about these characters.

Overall a terrible episode, but better than the first!

Another case of murder for DI Grace, as he tries to track down a killer, who's victims seem attached to the s & m scene.

A very good story, very well acted, superbly produced, suitably macabre, this was a welcome return for DI Grace. Fast paced, action packed, enough to keep you entertained throughout, super climax.

I found this easier to watch than the first episode, maybe that was the macabre story of the opener, or perhaps the characters are now well established.

I'm reminded somewhat of Wire in The Blood, slightly similar tone, and darker than your average crime series. It's another bleak storyline, in the same area as the opener.

I wish there hadn't been such a big gap between the first episode, and this one. There was a fair bit carried over, and I think many, along with me, would have forgotten lots of the details.

A good cast, the main talking point has to be Craig Parkinson, a surprising addition, I am a huge fan of his, is it a little too soon after Line of Duty for him to play a Detective? Time will tell, he was very good though.

8/10.