"Blue Murder" Make Believe (TV Episode 2006) Poster

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10/10
The grieving suffering of losing a child
Dr_Coulardeau14 June 2008
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This second episode of the third series is amazingly psychological and it approaches the psychology of several offenders but also the coppers themselves and some people in the public with a ton of causticity, the causticity it deserves. We have a case involving the death of a young child and the abduction of another, of course connected. That's the pattern of this series, so we know they are from the very start. It is interesting to approach the psychology of all the people concerned and directly or indirectly involved in the case. The coppers themselves have their problems with the Detective Chief Inspector who might have been in love and might have had an affair with or at least a crush on her direct subordinate is getting jealous because this subordinate dares have a liaison with the public relation officer that is attached to the team because of the very sensitive case they are on. It's funny to see middle aged adults behaving like children. Once again the episode does all it can to entangle the threads so that we cannot guess the end before the end. So go enjoy that episode to discover that end.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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6/10
The title is a clue
gridoon202426 August 2011
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A 3-year-old boy is abducted while playing in a park; soon afterwards the dead body of a boy of similar age and height is discovered in a sewer. While waiting for the DNA report to confirm the identity of the victim, DCI Janine Lewis and her team start their investigation assuming there is a match - but what if there isn't?

While it's not a bad mystery by any means, and in fact it does a good job of misleading the viewer and has fine acting especially by the moms, "Make Believe" is probably the weakest episode of the series so far. I blame mostly the long sequence in the middle where Janine goes to a party, gets drunk, insults Richard's new girlfriend (played by a stunning Shelley Conn) and sings karaoke off-key. I guess the purpose of the scene is to show the more "loose" side of Janine, but it plays out rather awkwardly. **1/2 out of 4.
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