Riddled with clichés

kris-523-976233

I had high expectations that for once the woman would be the bad guy and the man the victim. Too much to hope for, men are constantly being portrayed as the bad guy, rapist, paedophile, wife beater, bully, thug etc, etc or a weak individual subjugated by his wife or girlfriend. As someone else has pointed out Andrew is neither desperate nor stupid, he wouldn't have needed to rape when Laura was obviously attracted to him and if they didn't have sex that night, they would have eventually. He also wouldn't have come on to DI Harman whether he was guilty or not, again not that stupid. He's a good looking intelligent man and I'm sorry but it just doesn't gel. The only reason for this drama is to beat men once again, written I note by men who probably want to waive their feminist flag to show how modern they are. On top of that we have all the other clichés, black and white couple, female DI with wizened old male sidekick oh and of course the DI is a lesbian, I mean how many more clichés can they cram into it? Will Andrew's son be gay? Stupid, stupid, stupid, banal and unbelievable, I'm surprised an actor of Ioan Gruffudd's calibre agreed to be involved, he hardly needs the work or the money. Danny Webb, once again, is the best thing in it.

This is an update to my previous review having now had to endure the final 2 episodes, my wife enjoyed it. So skipping past the absurd part when Laura kidnaps Andrew and he doesn't make a complaint even when the lesbian detective turns up and he has the evidence still inside him. On to the last episode when she steals his phone, he knows it's gone and may have something incriminating on it but does nothing to cover his tracks.

The entire premise of this series is let's, yet again, beat the male population. I feel sorry for young women who watch this being led to believe that this is how all men act. The ending was unclear although I suspect it was the lesbian detective's lover who did it.

What really frightens me is, according to IMDb, there is a second series planned. Will it address the situation and have the woman as the liar, shouting rape falsely? As if!

score 1/10

kris-523-976233 5 October 2017

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3823040/