Good plot but once again takes place in a parallel universe where PACE ( despite it being the rule for the past 15 years at time of recording) doesn't exist, in drama terms it's policing from the 1950's but having the cast in modern dress . The standard excuse is that the needs of drama outweigh accuracy, Scott and Bailey and Suspects are two examples of how that needn't be true. One cannot help but wonder how many miscarriages of justice have occurred over the years due to arrests made by men who grew up influenced by TV shows written by writers whose love of maverick cops surpasses any idea that actual evidence matters.
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Oh dear once again authorities are the bad guy
7 January 2023
It's a story but by 2011 even Boyd wouldn't get away with beating up a suspect, thanks to PACE. The moment the custody sergeant saw his face Boyd would be suspended and advised to retire before he was sacked. The early stories were at least were within telephone distance of reality but by the time of this the ninth series any relation to police work is purely coincidental. This could have been a good story but once again the scriptwriters need for the police/authorities to be the bad guys derailed any chance of it having any chance of a plausible ending, sorry but having a gangster shoot the bad guy come on it's the finale why not have him eaten by a crocodile it's no less realistic. A.
Jumped the shark in the last few minutes
29 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Warning spoilers. Intriguing plot with good twists let down by the last few minutes, Brand suddenly producing a pistol, how? There's no private ownership of pistols and police firearms are the province of the armed response teams if you want CID able to do a "sweeney" you need to set the show in the 70's. Then Professor T in a cell? Charge him with anything and the sorry tale of senior officer goes postal on cheating boyfriend with a stolen glock comes out, and as for Donckers, given her telling Brand what had happened, having been told by a senior officer not to do so, created the situation, she would be lucky to hang onto a job as police constable, I appreciate this is a remake but "it's just a story" should not be grounds for getting the basic's wrong.
The Pale Horse
(2020)
Once again a Ford with a Mercedes badge on it.
17 February 2020
Buy a box of Sainsbury's cornflakes , fine, buy a box of Sainsbury's cornflakes where someone has written Kellogg on the box and is selling them as Kellogg 's you'd be thinking fraud, and yet once again Phelps writes her own story pins the Christie name to It and that's fine?
Vera
(2011–2025)
The writer brought up watching the Sweeney perhaps.
3 February 2019
Watching tonight's episode, I wish the writer would decide either go for realism and put Vera in her office dealing with all the paperwork like a real DCI or go Midsomer Murders and have her and her DS do everything.
Vera
(2011–2025)
1980's maverick detective.
20 January 2019
Currently watching episode 2 of the current series, after watching Scott and Bailey, Suspects and Unforgotten all of which acknowledge that senior officers spend their time chasing paperwork it's hard not to think I'm looking at a script from the 1980's, complete with maverick cop.
Ordeal by Innocence
(2018)
Mercedes wheels on a Ford doesn't make a Mercedes.
8 April 2018
The law of diminishing returns in operation, this is Sarah Phelps third go, moving further from the source novel each time, the BBC sold this to the public as an Agatha Christie, it's not, its a Sarah Phelps story with a slightly crooked Agatha Christie badge glued on.
Atomic Blonde
(2017)
Did the writer read his own script?
11 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this during the week, great look, great sound track, realistic fight scenes in a movie, twisty plot and then the final twist *** do not read on if you have not seen the movie *** the mole in MI6 is actually working for the CIA, come on the whole spin of the fight scenes were they were more 'real life' to have the CIA risk 'Five eyes" by authorizing an operation wrecking MI6 operations,(given the way the leaks were described at minimum blowing covers and putting contacts lives at risk), and then to hide what they have done to then have the operative frame a MI6 officer as the mole then kill the officer (the nature of the frame is such it would only work if the MI6 officer were dead) just to pass disinformation to the Russians, really? Then topping it off when the Russians find out what the CIA have done, do they use the info to sink the CIA / MI6 relationship, no they try to kill the CIA operative instead, why what would that achieve compared to destroying trust between MI6 and CIA.
Should Atomic Blonde get a second outing the writer needs to consider the consequences of his plot twists a little more.
Should Atomic Blonde get a second outing the writer needs to consider the consequences of his plot twists a little more.
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