Review by pariszone

I'll say right up front that as an American, I had no knowledge of any previous series by the same name, so I went in as a "clean slate". While I was initially impressed by how "smart" the shooting seemed to be (smart in the sense of being modern and stylish), the sheen quickly wore off. It's as if the writers consulted "the big book of clichés" in coming up with a storyline. It's really rather sad that the only scenes which held my attention were those of the sniper doing his dirty work. Everything else was just filler.

I started wondering if it was just me and that I simply could not suspend my own disbelief long enough to give the series a fighting chance. It was then that I dove into reviews others had written. I can only reach the conclusion that it "isn't just me". The series is predictable, the characters are irritating, and the music is... well... more irritating than the characters.

Here in the US, this is being shown through the PBS system. Only the first three episodes are free to watch without a PBS subscription, so those are the only three I have seen. I won't be making a monetary donation to see the remaining five episodes. From what I've seen so far, I'd say this could have (almost) made a halfway decent "made for TV movie" but in no stretch of the imagination can there possibly be eight episodes of material worth watching. As Gertrude Stein reportedly said, "There just isn't any 'there' there."