I have been watching Silent Witness ever since it started and was a big fan of the early series with Amanda Burton playing Dr Sam Ryan,back then it was a very realistic gritty drama that was very well acted,now with these later series they are becoming more and more far fetched and fall of cliches .
The Nikki Alexandra character played by Emilia Fox has just become so annoying, in the earlier series she was a brilliant forensic who just got on with her job,now in these later series shes now turned into some sort of super heroine whos trying to save the planet and even going against the police and taking the whole case into her own hands, really.?
In this episode she becomes distraught at the sight of 7 dead illegal immigrants who have been murdered and she is moved to tears and anger ,really?
I mean come on this is the woman who in many previous episodes has had to work on brutally murdered teens,babies pregnant women even people she had made friends with who have been murdered in the most horrific ways,and she has cut them up with out a second thought and gone for a drink and meal afterwards.And yet the viewer is now supposed to believe that she is hurt by seeing 7 dead bodies of people she had never met before .To me this is a sign that she should be changing her job and go to work for the refugee crises .She is definetely in the wrong job now.
Also the scene where she absconds with the illegal immigrant girl in the hospital just borders on stupiditety ,she hides her in a room and manages to plaster her broken arm in such a short space of time.Did they have the plaster already made up on the off chance?
And why was she not arrested or charged with aiding and helping an illegal immigrant escape,
I mean come on ,this series was brilliant before it started to try and up its game of trying to jump on the political bandwagon of trying hard to be liberal towards the immigrant crisis.
Also some of the acting has become a bit over the top.
Review of Identity: Part 1
