This is a show with so many ideas - and most of them quite good. However integrating them is ultimately its downfall.
The back drop of the miner's strikes is excellent and the damage inflicted on our towsn from government policy and dodgy policing.
The concept of an embedded police offer staying also intriguing.
The main murder story of someone mysteriously shot with an arrow also good.
And the story of a man who was upset at his life being disrupted by his son's new wife.
But the trouble is how do they all fit together? Well, they don't really.
You'll be forgiven for thinking was the story of the man, his son and his wife even necessary. Did it have any impact on the wider narrative? I can't think of any. It just was solved and dropped and that was that.
There was also far too many coincidences and deus ex machina. Just running into an ex-girlfriend by chance. That two murderers happened to stumble upon each other in all of the huge forest. That someone randonly sends a picture of the required phnoe numbers. These contrivances distract from the story.
It started off so well. The cast is decent. Its problem is it tried to grab at too many story strands and came away with mostly nothing.
The back drop of the miner's strikes is excellent and the damage inflicted on our towsn from government policy and dodgy policing.
The concept of an embedded police offer staying also intriguing.
The main murder story of someone mysteriously shot with an arrow also good.
And the story of a man who was upset at his life being disrupted by his son's new wife.
But the trouble is how do they all fit together? Well, they don't really.
You'll be forgiven for thinking was the story of the man, his son and his wife even necessary. Did it have any impact on the wider narrative? I can't think of any. It just was solved and dropped and that was that.
There was also far too many coincidences and deus ex machina. Just running into an ex-girlfriend by chance. That two murderers happened to stumble upon each other in all of the huge forest. That someone randonly sends a picture of the required phnoe numbers. These contrivances distract from the story.
It started off so well. The cast is decent. Its problem is it tried to grab at too many story strands and came away with mostly nothing.