User Reviews

Sam vanishes, and someone breaks into The Lyell, and tampers with evidence.

My money's on David Leon, and has been since episode one.

Wouldn't it have worked so much better, if Ed Whitmore had written the whole thing? The episodes he wrote to open this series up, were so good, since then, it's felt a bit disjointed somehow, like a great jigsaw, which isn't being assembled in the right way.

It was a decent episode, but in the scale of things, the show's 25 year history, I came away, once again feeling somewhat disappointed.

The story was quite satisfying, but not a great deal actually happened here, nothing really drove the story forward, until the dramatic conclusion, but somehow it felt a little hollow. The major plus, was the production values, this series has looked immense, visually stunning, good music and sharp direction. What's been the biggest disappointment, is the lack of screen time for Amanda Burton.

After all that happened in the last two parts, nothing would have surprised me, the one thing I really wanted to see was a cameo by Liz Carr, fingers crossed.

Don't get me wrong, it's not bad, it's actually quite good, I just think that the first two episodes of this series promised so much more.

7/10.

This was a better episode than the last two, in the sense that it returned to the main storyline but, overall, the story is just not gripping enough. We've watched many more exciting two-parters over the last 25 years. And, in general, this season just doesn't have any '25-year-old-anniversary-special' feel to it in the least.

I would have expected a long, complex storyline that for some reason involves either revisiting old cases or the brief return of classic characters. But none of that. Instead, we have a story that, so far, seems as if it could have been much more concise in a two-parter. Which shows, as I've written before, the inability of the writers to work effectively on long-term storylines (e.g. Main characters' backstories are often weak or inconsistent). Here, we have scenes that look like fillers-in or new subplots in episodes that put the main storyline in the background. Killing time, really.

It's quite disappointing that Sam Ryan has turned out to be, not someone who would work with The Lyell to solve an unusually challenging case, but just another suspect, like the ones the main characters are dealing with in every case. Her screen time has been regretfully little.

One more episode left of this, and I hold no high hopes, despite my best wishes for the contrary.