Review: From Darkness (S1 E3/4), Sunday 18th October, BBC1

Programme Name: From Darkness - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 3) - Picture Shows: Claire Church (ANNE-MARIE DUFF), John Hind (JOHNNY HARRIS) - (C) BBC - Photographer: Ben Blackall
(C) BBC – Photographer: Ben Blackall

It was time for episode three of this head-scratcher of a crime drama. Good cast, interesting-sounding story, but ultimately badly put together, which is a shame when you consider its pedigree in front of and behind the camera. However, with only four episodes I had decided to carry on with it, battle through some of those baffling scenes and find out whodnunit. Or at least whydunit. Continue reading Review: From Darkness (S1 E3/4), Sunday 18th October, BBC1

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Review: Arne Dahl (S2 E1&2/10), Saturday 17th October, BBC4

Programme Name: Arne Dahl - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 2) - Picture Shows: Gunnar Nyberg (MAGNUS SAMUELSSON) - (C) Filmlance International AB - Photographer: Johan Paulin
(C) Filmlance International AB – Photographer: Johan Paulin

The first series of the adaptations of the cult Intercrime novels of Jan Arnald (nom de plume Arne Dahl) aired in April 2013 on BBC4. We immediately enjoyed it because it had something of the feel of the early New Tricks series; it had gritty characters who weren’t all impossibly glamorous 20-somethings, but instead fairly hardboiled, old-hand detectives.

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