How anyone can use words such as 'superb', 'mesmerising' or 'gripping' when reviewing this series is beyond me. In reality, it's dull, slow and very boring.
The basic story is fine but its development is so slow as to be glacial. The dialogue is mostly lacking in any sparkle and the direction is often rather spasmodic, with scenes shifting somewhat abruptly at times. The main cast appears to be mostly female, the few men involved being portrayed in less than friendly light - they're mostly either villains, unhelpful and uninteresting police or rather gruff others.
Alexandra Roach and Joanna Scanlan do their best with weak material and others, such as Sian Reese-Williams (DCI Cadi John from the far superior "Hidden") are also fine, but the main bad boy, played by Iwan Rheon, simply scowls his way through the first 2 episodes while wearing the necessary haunted look of a confessed killer. None of them demand much in the way of attention or empathy and, after those 2 episodes, I gave up.
Watching paint dry was preferable to worrying about what had happened in some Welsh wood or field 18 years earlier.
The basic story is fine but its development is so slow as to be glacial. The dialogue is mostly lacking in any sparkle and the direction is often rather spasmodic, with scenes shifting somewhat abruptly at times. The main cast appears to be mostly female, the few men involved being portrayed in less than friendly light - they're mostly either villains, unhelpful and uninteresting police or rather gruff others.
Alexandra Roach and Joanna Scanlan do their best with weak material and others, such as Sian Reese-Williams (DCI Cadi John from the far superior "Hidden") are also fine, but the main bad boy, played by Iwan Rheon, simply scowls his way through the first 2 episodes while wearing the necessary haunted look of a confessed killer. None of them demand much in the way of attention or empathy and, after those 2 episodes, I gave up.
Watching paint dry was preferable to worrying about what had happened in some Welsh wood or field 18 years earlier.