Waking the Dead (TV Series) The Hardest Word: Part 1 (2004) User Reviews

A very different episode. Excellent.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 9 April 2021]

The team are investigating a series of brutal murders, where the victims are left facing down, with the word sorry carved on their back, Boyd has the complication of being made to work with DS Bulmer.

It's an excellent episode, it now comes with a warning that some scenes are upsetting, that's very fair in this case, not as bleak as part two though. It's fast paced, dramatic, and offers up something by having the involvement of a second team, run by a smart arse, it's very good.

Despite the very dark tone, it does have a few lighter moments, I loved the scenes of Boyd meeting Greta for the first time. Wonderfully played by Emma Fielding.

Best of all, the dynamic between Boyd and Bulmer, it's a real game of wits, the best of Phil Daniels for me.

Excellent, 9/10.

Beyond absurd

[salk2010 · 6/10 · 31 January 2023]

In spite of James Dreyfus' TRULY excellent performance in Part 2, neither the script writers nor the person who wrote this was "A very different episode. Excellent." Doesn't have even the vaguest lay person's understanding of the relationship between a pedophile and it's prey. They are NEVER sorry for what they do, only that they get caught. On the rare occasion that one feels true remorse for their actions, they usually commit suicide because, as yet there is no known, absolute, permanent method of correcting their corrupted hardware & programming. Greta's "remorseful" pedo dad, would literally had to have been stalking her 24/7, in order to have known about her sexual encounters, and she must have known it was him(or somebody) and therefor she is complicit in the murders. She is shown in flashback, her first encounter, she leaves the guy bound to the bed, but ungagged, he starts yelling at her as she leaves the room, how does her daddums get access to all of the rooms if she hasn't left them open for him?