It baffles me that people think this is 'rubbish'. I throughly enjoyed this too-short series and would certainly like to see it again (a lost gem, like MURDER CITY or MAYO, really.). Nicely written, well-performed, well produced and directed and in its basic premise somewhat different from the routine policier.
OK, so it could be justifiably criticised as 'unrealistic' but good grief NONE of the TV police dramas is in any sense realistic, they're all sort of what-if alternate-world (sometimes wish-fulfilment) versions of law enforcement. NCS had a bizarre and quirky charm, almost like the whole team were working on the barely-legal fringes of government. And, for me anyway, it had the great advantage of being British. I think I have seen enough American television shows.
OK, so it could be justifiably criticised as 'unrealistic' but good grief NONE of the TV police dramas is in any sense realistic, they're all sort of what-if alternate-world (sometimes wish-fulfilment) versions of law enforcement. NCS had a bizarre and quirky charm, almost like the whole team were working on the barely-legal fringes of government. And, for me anyway, it had the great advantage of being British. I think I have seen enough American television shows.
