London Underground

This is one of my favourite episodes in the whole run of New Tricks.

All the London lore is really fascinating. I know it's part of the humour for Steve to be dismissive of what Dan tells him about old London, the river Fleet and so forth, but I would happily listen to it for hours.

There are some great characters in this one too. I particularly like Sophie Thompson's artist ('....sex magic. Turns out that's messy and not to be recommended.') Cecily Watkins is also a memorable person.

As someone else wrote, the location filming is amazing too.

All in all, this is a really entertaining, twisty episode and a great entry in the series.

this has been a very good series albeit somewhat unbalanced of late. This episode is one of the best. I'm sad this is the last season, yet I'm heartened to see everyone has kept the show up to a high standard. I wish the best of luck to all associated with this series, it has been a great run. If you haven't seen it you'll be surprised at the content, acting, writing and direction. It is hard to lose three major characters in a series with out missing the drama, but the cast and producers have risen to the challenge. This episode, like many, explores the London of the past. These plots come from the 40's 50's 60's 70's and 80's and provide a window to the past. Kudos all round.

Unlike many people, I've been watching new tricks from the finals seasons backwards, and I can see some of the change as the seasons went on and team members were swapped.

This is the standout episode of the final seasons, ironically possibly because the characters don't interact as much, which felt more tacked on in these later season than a central part of the show. This lets Danny's unusual knowledge shine as he recognizes how the Fleet river is related to the case, and starts the unit on the path to solving the crime. The atmosphere is set early by some strange film clips, and several spooky scenarios follow. The story of these artists and strange characters and the Fleet river drew my in: I wanted to look at some of the writing and videos mentioned in the episode, only to remember it was all fictional. I did look at the fleet river and its history, which was pretty interesting, including the locations shown in the show. Though I did realize the film clips early on didn't make much sense, reordering them the way the characters described wouldn't produce anything sensible. Oh well.

If you are checking out the later seasons of this shwo, make sure you see this episode.

The body of film critic Oliver Houghton is found dead in a sewer, Sasha is convinced it's linked to the twenty year old case of the death of David Straka.

They certainly pulled this one out of the bag, arguably the best episode for quite some time. A story that had the quality of the earliest episodes, it was very original, well paced, and featured great characters.

The previous episode was very good, it seems as though this penultimate series is starting to turn a corner. I always enjoy a cold case, this mixes new and old, it works incredibly well.

The acting was on point, I enjoyed Nicola Stephenson, Benjamin Whitrow, and loved Adèle Anderson's excellent performance.

Lyndhurst is pretty good here, Dan is still a little too clever for his own food, but here at least it was convincing, I'm sure everyone rolled their eyes when he started rattling on about The Fleet.

Sasha is definitely learning how to manipulate Ned, you'll wonder why on Earth she ever got with him, the pair shared some very good scenes.

Excellent, 9/10.

Have always been a big fan of detective/mystery shows from a fairly young age, well since starting secondary school.

'Inspector Morse', 'A Touch of Frost', 'Midsomer Murders' (in its prime), 'Law and Order', 'Inspector George Gently', 'Criminal Minds', 'Murder She Wrote', you name them to name a few. 'New Tricks' has also been a favourite from the start (despite not being the same without the original cast in recent years). Although it can be corny at times (in an endearing sort of way) it has always been perfect for helping me relax in the evenings. Something that was needed during all the hard times endured in school.

"London Underground" is one of the best episodes of Season 11 and one of the better episodes of the post-prime period and since "The Rock".

There is a lot more right than there is wrong. It is agreed that suspects are too few that the reveal are not surprising and actually obvious too early. Same with that the whole Sasha and Ned plot line distracts a little and doesn't contribute enormously.

It is an interesting case though, an odd one but still very engaging and actually am slowly getting used to the new team dynamic. It is charming and likeable, if not as sparkling or fresh as the original one and none of the characters are as strong as Brian. Sorry to keep mentioning this, just my stance.

Visually, "London Underground" is slick and stylish as ever. The music is a good fit and the theme song (sung with gusto by none other by Dennis Waterman himself) is one of the catchiest for any detective/mystery show and of any show in the past fifteen years or so.

The writing is thoughtful and classy and Sasha has settled well and her confidence is growing all the time.

All four leads are never less than very good and the support is solid.

Concluding, well done episode. 8/10 Bethany Cox