Silent Witness (TV Series) And Then I Fell in Love: Part 1 (2012) User Reviews

A tough watch.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 14 October 2018]

I've never been someone that's shyed away from the show, at times it's been tough watching, a mix of fire and dark material. And the I fell in love however is the toughest watch of the lot, indeed I've only now ma aged to read it, since its original transmission.

Obviously the BBC delayed transmission in light of the revelation of the Rotherham scandal. Even now though I find this one extremely tough to watch, it shows the whole cycle of abuse, the scouting, grooming and eventual misery.

It's very well made, very well acted, it has a fantastic scene with Harry in the bath, and his flat exploding, but ultimately this is an episode I won't watch on any semi regular basis as it is too graphic, and too realistic. 8/10

Over the Top

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 18 April 2019]

This is an extremely hard episode to watch. A young Pakistani man is using naive young women to get into sex trafficking. He wines and dines them with his friends and then locks them in a room where men pay to sexually assault them. He is handsome and utterly despicable. The girls are all troubled in some way and fall easy victim to this awful character. The scenes are graphic and incredibly violent.

Should have been 1 hour

[TKBlackburn · 6/10 · 18 October 2020]

Like all episodes this season, this brutal story would have been much more compelling, less repetitive & more engaging if changed to a one-hour format.

This entire season is a downhill momentum for the entire series, & is the last season I could force myself to watch after loving the show through the previous 10+ seasons.

The hardest thing for an American watching the series all along has been the full nudity of live & dead people. In the very first episode of season 1, we saw a full-on sex scene with a 7-year-old watching it. Now we get Americanized PG versions of sex, yet we still see up the wazzoos of dead people. Incongruent & weird.

The new trajectory for the series has too many cooks in the kitchen probably. It's feeling like the American series "Revolultion" which changed tone & character personality each week with different writers until it finally was taken off the air. Yet, for some reason, this show just keeps going inexplicably.