This might take a while.
If your background is writing soap operas and the odd episode of a well established drama then when you venture into different territories then the least you can do is some basic research on the fundamentals.
There are enough investigative police dramas/thrillers around that we've all seen and they range from excellent to rubbish.
To stand out from the pack then you need an understanding of three things: 1: The basics of the way that police investigate crimes 2: The technology available to them 3: The law So when all these are basically ignored then you need to have a plot which demands attention and characters who take decisions in a way that suggests some sort of rational thought, and also characters who are consistent.
This could have been over and done with if they'd called the police to start with, but no. Let's portray these characters as simpletons.
None of them seem to have a clue about GPS tracking on mobile phones which the police could have used to place them at the scene of the crime within an hour or two after the start of the investigation.
None of them seem to care about leaving footprints, DNA, (Wash the boot doesn't cut it) or CCTV camera footage.
The police were completely inept in just about every way possible (You should investigate all leads, gather data and then that will lead you to the main suspects).
The one lawyer is a cardboard cutout of what people who don't know anything about the law think that lawyers do.
I could go on, but after the first episode I thought it was trash and like my favourite laugh-a-thon (The Following) I was hooked simply because I couldn't imagine it getting worse.
But it did.
The casting, cinematography and acting were excellent, so that's why it gets 2/10, but the plot seems like it was written by pasting together all the worst bits discarded by better writers of better series, whatever the genre.
If your background is writing soap operas and the odd episode of a well established drama then when you venture into different territories then the least you can do is some basic research on the fundamentals.
There are enough investigative police dramas/thrillers around that we've all seen and they range from excellent to rubbish.
To stand out from the pack then you need an understanding of three things: 1: The basics of the way that police investigate crimes 2: The technology available to them 3: The law So when all these are basically ignored then you need to have a plot which demands attention and characters who take decisions in a way that suggests some sort of rational thought, and also characters who are consistent.
This could have been over and done with if they'd called the police to start with, but no. Let's portray these characters as simpletons.
None of them seem to have a clue about GPS tracking on mobile phones which the police could have used to place them at the scene of the crime within an hour or two after the start of the investigation.
None of them seem to care about leaving footprints, DNA, (Wash the boot doesn't cut it) or CCTV camera footage.
The police were completely inept in just about every way possible (You should investigate all leads, gather data and then that will lead you to the main suspects).
The one lawyer is a cardboard cutout of what people who don't know anything about the law think that lawyers do.
I could go on, but after the first episode I thought it was trash and like my favourite laugh-a-thon (The Following) I was hooked simply because I couldn't imagine it getting worse.
But it did.
The casting, cinematography and acting were excellent, so that's why it gets 2/10, but the plot seems like it was written by pasting together all the worst bits discarded by better writers of better series, whatever the genre.