The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Beyond the Pale

I accept the points that other reviewers have made about there being much less light indoors and at night in Victorian England than there is nowadays. I'm all for authenticity. But even allowing for this, most of the scenes were lit so darkly that it was very difficult to tell what was going on. This episode (unlike the other other ones in the series) took "moody and atmospheric and authentic" way too far. We had indoor or night-time scenes in episode 1.2 "The Murder in Angel Lane" (which I've just watched, so I can make a fair comparison), but they were nowhere near as dingy: it was at least possible to see what was happening and which characters were present. And how ever dark and gloomy Victorian interiors and night-times may have been, that does not explain why the day-time scenes were also very dark - unless they were set during a solar eclipse ;-)

This series makes me wish i could grow mean ass pork chops on my face like that. I guess they were all the rage. Top hats and mutton.

Extremely predictable. Watch any other TV movie and it ends up the same.

Too often "excellence" has been cheapened by corporate prostitution but this series, however brief, is monstrously entertaining and simply brilliant in it's subtlety and nuance. The out of control son is accurately presented in the historical context...my own family had such issues much of which is forgotten these days.

I am enjoying the detail and accuracy of the period research and the production qualities but the acting is superb...and makes me want to look into the other performances of the lead and the secondary characters. This has got to be the best 'series' I've seen for decades coming out of the UK.

Poor lighting is one thing, the absence of it is quite another. It was an effort to watch this show. There were scenes in this episode which I could not see at all. I had watched a previous episode which was not nearly this dark. I watched till the end because I do like the series.