Dark Heart

I'm trying to watch with interest but it is so slow and boring that my concentration is frequently lapsing, so I'm writing this review instead. The deadpan characters aren't helping either.

Is the storyline hard to follow or are my lapses to blame?

I just started watching the first season of Dark Heart directed by Colin Teague yesterday afternoon and had to pause on episode 5. I returned to it today and got to episode 6 and to my surprise that was the end. WHY!? This show left me hanging on so many levels. It will leave you hanging on the edge of your seat trust me (especially episode 6). I for some reason thought there were 8 episodes... Please, please let there be another season 2 and 3....so I/all those who enjoyed this first season can see what happens next. I think the acting in the show portrayed by Tom Riley(DI Will Wagstaffe), Anjli Mohindra(DC Josie Chancellor), and, Charlotte Riley(Juliette), and, Miranda Raison(Sylvie) is top-notch. Can't wait for more... 👌👍

Protagonist is ok, not great though. Female cast is horrendous, worst is Mohindra. Also agree with another reviewer not enough police work and too much boring soap opera personal life. Luther vibes?? They could only wish! You need a great personality, character, actor to pull that off. Wasted potential.

Great idea and great acting. Tom Riley, Charlotte Riley and Amanda Raison are wonderful actors and it's worth watching the series just for them. The problem is the plotting; it all feels underwritten, or more likely either over edited. There's a lot of "what happened there?" moments. Nevertheless, still a superior bit of TV drama.

Most of this is a workmanlike unspooling of a mysterious series of killings. The victims are all men who were accused of sexually abusing children but whose cases were not brought to trial. Links are found to a killing which took place two years ago, but the man who did that confessed and is in prison. He was father to the abused child. But parents of the children abused by those targeted in the latest round all have alibis. Helped by some very good performances, notably by the lead actor, the riddle is unwound.. But the narrative is confused by a scene which seems pointlessly confusing inserted for no apparent reason.