I purposely hadn't watched this series, based on the mainly negative reviews I'd read, but a dark miserable wet day and it went on, if I wasn't miserable enough before, I certainly was about fifteen minutes into this.
The story itself is dark and disturbing, but the way in which it was produced it was overly macabre and grim. It has a very good opening episode, a sound second, and a rather disappointing conclusion. It all fell apart a little at the end.
The best thing that can be said about this drama is the acting, some quality performances, Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, David Warner, Sarah Smart etc all really good, Douglas Henshall is great as the creepy Augustus Cribben, but it's the wonderful Olivia Cooke that gave the most endearing performance as Nancy Linnet, she was great.
Worth a watch I guess, but if you've read it I fear you may be a little disappointed in it. 6/10.
The story itself is dark and disturbing, but the way in which it was produced it was overly macabre and grim. It has a very good opening episode, a sound second, and a rather disappointing conclusion. It all fell apart a little at the end.
The best thing that can be said about this drama is the acting, some quality performances, Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, David Warner, Sarah Smart etc all really good, Douglas Henshall is great as the creepy Augustus Cribben, but it's the wonderful Olivia Cooke that gave the most endearing performance as Nancy Linnet, she was great.
Worth a watch I guess, but if you've read it I fear you may be a little disappointed in it. 6/10.