Kavanagh QC (TV Series) A Sense of Loss (1996) User Reviews

Outstanding

[TheLittleSongbird · 10/10 · 16 April 2010]

Along with Job Satisfaction, A Sense of Loss is an outstanding episode, up there along with Memento Mori and Dead Reckoning as a standout episode of the legal drama. From the atmospheric opening to the well rounded ending, it is great from start to finish. John Thaw is excellent once again as Kavanagh and Anna Chancellor is also good as Julia. Ger Ryan gives a fine supporting turn as Maggie Warwick, while Ruaidhri Conroy is brilliant as the detached teenager accused of killing a police officer. The episode further benefits from great writing, fine camera work, good direction and superb music. Overall, an outstanding episode. 10/10 Bethany Cox

A Sense of Loss

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 8 April 2020]

When a policewoman is murdered. The police arrest Paul Warwick pretty quickly. A youth with a long list of convictions for burglary but not violent crimes.

Kavanagh and Julia Piper have their work cut out in this one. Paul also confessed in his police interrogation.

Kavanagh suspects Paul feels guilty about something and is also protecting someone.

It is not hard to guess who that someone is. A bittersweet court case for Kavanagh.

Jeremy Aldermarten gets involved in a political asylum case. His client thinks he does not have any fire in his belly.

This pushes Aldermarten at the hearing to try his utmost best, he even comes across as a radical. If only asylum cases were easier to do as portrayed on television!