User Reviews

All six episodes lead to nothing. I realize the series is loosely based on true crimes, but the reveal of the villain was obvious from the moment Lisa gets in the car with him. I'm too exhausted to look back for clues, it seemed ridiculous. Also, they felt it was important to wrap up the dad in the hospital story, but we never get any closure about the original missing girl, nor what the police concluded about Burkely's shooting. I presume he's dead and his partner lied, but we don't know that.

Perhaps Amy is never found, but it was brushed over. Perhaps Burkely is dead, Brennan lied, and nobody followed up? I guess the Garda circa the mid 90s was the laziest crew ever? They don't investigate the murder of police officers? How about the corrupt Chief Superintendent and Gough? Nothing?

It felt like it was supposed to be 8 episodes, but they suddenly pulled the plug at 6. I'll give it 5 stars because I enjoyed the performances, but the series as a whole really tanked and left me irritated.

Like so many others, I enjoyed this until the last few minutes. Actors were great, lots of plot twists and perhaps red herrings. Some silliness with making too much noise when defied common sense towards the end. And no real ending.

As a true crime,this needed to be handled a different way to even be satisfied with possibilities of whodunit. A s a story inspired by real events, this should have a season two and a real resolution.

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What happened to Aimee? How could a man approximately the same age as Lisa have been old enough to jurser her mother? Why did the police chief redact earlier investigations? Is David really dead? Did he bite off some DNA? Will there be more evidence to prove that Lisa's dad was set up and will he be set free? What happened to David's boyfriend? The series just sorta ended with one person lying on the floor, one person claiming he was shot, and four in the hospital. What about the earlier women that vanished? And what gives with shouting for the detective in the factory when she knew there was a killer inside? So much noise and bizarre music and echoes while you just wanted her to be quiet and aware of her surroundings. It's like in the last episode the writers and director gave up.

This started off well but rapidly lost momentum. Rather than concentrating on a decent mystery it got bogged down with the side story of the detective David's personal life. Although poignant it felt forced and took away from the actual storyline of the missing girls. It does also seem in most police dramas that the people in charge are always incompetent, corrupt or both. The ending was disappointing. Sadly I had guessed who it was so the shock wasn't so much. I would rather the whole thing had been resolved rather than leaving it open for perhaps a second series. If a second series has been issued then it could have followed a different path perhaps Lisa trying to clear her fathers name or finding a different case. As it was we still have no idea what happened to that girl who was originally taken at the start and frustratingly we will have to watch the baddie getting away with it. I would definitely have preferred a resolution.

This is one of those series where one yells at the screen a lot. "Don't go in there alone!" "Don't follow him (murder suspect) down a country lane in the dark 10 feet behind him!" "Don't run down a road after you've escaped."A journalist reveals her mother was murdered when she was a child and the murderer communicates with her.

Now she decides she is a detective and has the real Detective constantly trying to get her to back off. Does she listen?

Side story the real Detective is Gay and still very much in the closet. He falls in love with a male prostitute. Good decision making. Cookie Cutter plot from Ireland. Film Blarney?

WTF is all I have to say. This was an incomplete crime series, leaving the ending stupidly unresolved, with character's whereabouts left unknown, and the perp not caught. What's wrong with writers in the UK, they do this all the time!

The viewer invests time in watching good episodes only to realize the writers and producers went to sleep or on vacation in the end.

Do they not have story editors anymore to work on scripts to say "hey, you need a proper ending and to resolve your crime properly".

I feel completely ripped off with this series, as there's no satisfaction at all.

The acting was very good, but these writers should not be allowed to roam free without a supervisor in charge telling them the most basic thing any story writer should know: solve your crimes properly and don't cheat your audience.

What can I say? I loved this right up until the last episode. There are many series out there where the ending spoilt the story but this takes the win by a country mile. There is no ending, no resolution and every bad guy, and there are a lot of them, totally gets away with everything while every good guy, not so many, looses. Terrible, terrible, terrible. I can understand wanting by be a bit less good guy wins but this is beyond the pale. It just leaves you feeling like you've wasted your 6 hours. Why did he kill her mum? Why did he leave her alive? Why did he pick who he did. Who even is he? And what about the whole corrupt police force filled with child traffickers? I'm just left with an icky feeling and that's never right for entertainment. They've missed the point and got the whole feel wrong at the end.

I'm sorry this particular series got the brunt of my anger. It probably deserved more than one star. But I'm sick to death of crime dramas that are as brilliantly written and acted as this one was - the kind that grip you for six episodes of increasingly agonizing suspense, with real characters caught in terrible moral dilemmas, and then -

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• throw it all away in the last five minutes for the sake of a cheap fling at fashionable cynicism.

In a nutshell: the bad guy gets away with it. And we never find out what happened to Amy, who started the whole thing rolling. (Did I miss that somewhere along the way? I assume she's dead, but she gets lost in the shuffle.) I loved seeing all the scenes in and around Dublin, and I felt like things were drawing toward a satisfying conclusion; and then, once again, literally in the last five minutes, the rug was yanked out from under me, because God knows we can't have an ending where the people involved pay a terrible price, but some measure of justice, you know, manages to win in the end. Cheap shoddy conclusion that throws everything that came before it in the trash: deus ex machina in reverse.

Like others wrote, the acting is good, but the characters are so incredible dumb. It actually had potential to be a good story but is massacred by stupidity.

Ex: female character crying by her father's death bed, she gets upset and doctor come and give her an injection to fall a sleep? What kind of hospital is this? She wakes up strained to a bed?!

I can't stand the whole journalist being let in to do police work, such a weak story line.

Police's daughter asks journalist, "will you solve this?" Journalist answers "I will do everything in my power to solve this", standing by the actual police!

I liked the cinematography the view of Ireland were good. The female reported is a good character actor. The writing is very bad. So you're saying that all cops in Ireland are either corrupt, incompetent or serial killers. The ending was abrupt and unsatisfying. This seems to be a condemnation of the Irish justice system. I would have like to visit Ireland but not if this is the way it is.

There are several times the characters act in a manner against all common sense.

Why go in there, why follow so close.

Since it was so political why did they have one of the after blurbs that say they have changed there law on homosexuality.

I wish I had read the reviews before watching this! Despite only giving it two stars I did enjoy it right up until the ending, I even checked to see if there were actually seven episodes as it ended with too much unresolved.

We never did find out what happened to Amy, or why Lisa's mother was murdered. Did the murderer get away with everything and what about the corrupt police who ran a child prostitution ring?

It seemed as if the script writers just ran out of steam and couldn't be bothered to write a final episode.

The acting was great which is why I gave it the two stars but a good series was let down significantly at the end.

The story started well and characters were developed enough for you to care what will happen to them. There's plenty of bad decisions made, and plenty of red herrings but for regular viewers of crime drama you'll probably guess the baddy early on.

Unfortunately everything falls apart in the final episode. Leads continue to make bad decisions, and go on a chase without any backup. It all appears to be wrapped up abruptly as though they had planned on a second season but weee told at the last minute no. There's still plenty of loose ends which is a major flaw as the instigation of the whole series isn't explained.

Finally the sound quality was poor. The main male lead was excellent and was the only one who spoke or was taped speaking clearly. Unfortunately he won't be around for the second season I'd they make one.

Some great characters in this and storyline, but the ending was so weak, unresolved. No resolution to the storyline or to justice. Feels like it's missing the final episode. Wish they would create a final episode that brought resolution, wrapped up the storyline, explain what happened to all of the characters, and actually created some justice. It's good to listen with subtitles. Can't believe there will be so many people being corrupt in the police force. What happened to Aimee? Let's have them do that final episode so we'll know what really happened or didn't. Instead of having to read between the lines And guess what happened.

Enjoyed the first few episodes, knowing it was based on real events kept me interested. And it's always a pleasure to see Alan Leetch in anything. We feel his pain as we grow to understand that his character is keeping a deep dark secret. But ultimately the story never pays off. Like the main character, we stay with the story because we want to know who her mothers killer was. And we ultimately feel compassion for her father who is in prison for murder that he may not have committed. The first five episodes introduced us to victims and their families and we care about their outcomes. But then, after six hours we finally get to the ending which is abrupt, vague and never actually reveals who the mother's killer is (the original murder in episode one). We also don't know what happens to the killer, does he get away with it? Do the corrupt police get away with it? Complete waste of time.