C.B. Strike (TV Series) The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 3 (2017) User Reviews

The Green eyed monster strikes again.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 5 August 2021]

Strike and Robin both use a few underhanded techniques to garner more information, one vital clue has Strike's attention, and he acts on it.

Absolutely brilliant, I have enjoyed every second of this three part story, and this final episode offers up a huge amount. The opening scenes at The Boutique are phenomenal, and perhaps my favourite scene from the show so far, it's the way he looks at her in that green dress, utter captivation.

The ending is a remarkable scene, superbly played out, dramatic, and very exciting, it's a great TV moment.

Amazing acting, I must give credit to Leo Bill as John, but I cannot help but be captivated by Sian Phillips, in her eighties here, and still loaded with charisma.

This show has had huge audience figures, unsurprisingly fans like myself are counting down for the next installment.

Brilliant, 9/10.

Strike and Robin...but!..

[lauster123-844-670943 · 8/10 · 5 August 2022]

The simple fact that Robin changed Strike's world but wound up with her asking to stay, instead of him groveling, at her talent and stick-to-it-iveness, to then continue to help him succeed, made me a bit sad. I'm sure J. K. Rowling did not write this screenplay!

Parts 1-3

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 10 September 2017]

As the Strike novels were written by JK Rowling under a nom de plume, the BBC have spared little expense here even giving the serial a title sequence with a catchy song.

The Cuckoo's Calling starts with the body of a young black woman who is a fashionable model Lula Landry, lying dead on a snowy London street.

Her adopted brother engages Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) to investigate her death deemed as a suicide. Strike is the epitome of a down at heel detective, potless and legless as he literally lost a leg in combat in Afghanistan. Yet there is something about him that once enjoyed the good life, he knows his wines and he comes from wealth of some kind.

Strike takes on a new office temp, Robin (Holliday Grainger) even though he does not have money to pay her, still she puts up with him knowing he is living in the office.

Strike investigates the rather dysfunctional adoptive family of Lula Landry and enters the world of the eccentric, the rich and cowardly.

Although the first story was interesting it was never compelling. Burke captured the griminess of Strike but although stylish it felt flat.