User Reviews

Leonora Quine approaches Strike, she needs her help tracking down her husband, famous writer Own Quine.

I may not be the biggest fan of Rowling's not famous creation, Harry Potter, but I can totally appreciate her imagination and writing here. Exploring the darker side of her creativity here, some of the ideas and images are bleak and nasty.

This is a deliciously dark, intriguing and captivating start. The mystery of what happened to Owen Quine is fascinating, and the assembled parties are terrific, Leonora and Liz Tassel in particular. So impressed by Lia Williams and Monica Dolan, both are awesome actresses.

You can see the relationship developing between Cormoran and Robin, the pair are settling with one another.

It's a great opener, 9/10.

A really clunky start to this new story, by no means silky-smooth, despite the title. It was packed so full of glaring inconsistencies that the viewer has to wonder what made them so appallingly careless.

Nevertheless, the growing chemistry between Robin and Cormoran was something everyone was waiting to see, and wondering just how it will pan out from here. Will they, or won't they?

For that alone I will give it a fairly generous 6/10.

But as for the so-easily-offended person who made a ludicrous objection to Sarah Gordy playing a person with Down syndrome, please note that Sarah IS a person with Down syndrome. She was the first woman with Down syndrome to receive an MBE, the first person with Down syndrome to be awarded an honorary degree by a British university and Mencap's first celebrity ambassador with a learning disability. So who else do you think she should play, now she is becoming an established actor? Or should Down syndrome people never ever be depicted on film or TV, so the industry pretends they don't actually exist? Please tell.

I do like strike.

However this episode is ruined by the deplorable stereotype acted by Sarah Gordy. It's a disgrace and has no place being shown anywhere. This stereotype will only serve to reinforce ignorant antedeluvian deas about those with disabilities.

Would racial stereotypes be allowed?

Of course not. But when it comes to disability it's still open season.

Shame on the writers.

Hence the one star rating.

In future, please please try and be more sensitive. Above all. Please try to be realistic.

Is that too much to ask!