Silent Witness (TV Series) To Brighton, To Brighton: Part 2 (2019) User Reviews

The mystery explained, almost.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 22 January 2019]

To Brighton, To Brighton, has been one of the most engaging stories from the team, not that episodes haven't been of the highest quality, but this was a good old fashioned mystery, you were left wondering who, what and why literally until the very end.

It didn't have the wow factor that the first episode had, that was exceptional, but it was still a very high standard indeed. As per usual, we got an in depth look at the four main players, this time we learned more about Nikki, and we got a glimpse into the home life of our magical Clarissa, Liz Carr has become the best character of the lot for me, I find her so engaging, the scenes with her on screen husband were lovely, a shame he doesn't get to feature more often. Always great to see Michael Landes, a terrific actor.

It's going to take a second look to fully understand what was going on, watching it with flu wasn't a great idea, I got the gist of it, but one or two things I wasn't fully understanding of. Not the explanation I was expecting. One thing I would like to know, if that couple were so cash strapped, how could they afford a property overlooking the sea?

Terrific once again. 8/10

Brighton Corpse

[retina_scan · 7/10 · 20 February 2022]

As someone who has lived in Brighton for almost a decade, I enjoy seeing the city onscreen - one of the scenes was filmed just around the corner from my first flat. It's a pity though that they didn't make the most of it, as there are areas that would work very well as scenes in crime drama. Also, the city has more to it than the way it's portrayed here: sunny, tourstic exotic. It's also quite bizarre that they chose to write a story involving members of the Japanese culture, because the city is, let's face it, very white...

Overall, not the best of stories. The pacing was slow and not very engaging, I got bored at times during the two-parter - something you wouldn't expect in one of the most gruesome and graphic episodes ever. And that's the thing - it's never made very clear why the murder is so brutal in the first place? Or that the pathologists couldn't tell earlier on that one body was amputated by a person and the other by the recyclign machine? And, as someone else has said, (and first thing I said when I saw this), so Mick is struggling financially but can afford a house with panoramic sea views in Roedean? Really?

It's not clear how Nikki's pregnancy subplot related to all this and it seemed like they were filling time. As for Clarissa, I've written before how this character has been written very well in terms of representations of disability onscreen but this is beginning to change. Approaches such as this one: 'look at her, she's disabled but she's so good!' may lead to positive representation and good role model, but they may also be seen as patronising. Hopefully this was down to a poorly-written script in all the other ways outlined here and it won't get any worse.

Accurate

[yamz · 1/10 · 29 January 2019]

One of the worst episodes of the series, ever! This season has been fairly dismal too however this episode fails engage the viewer as the plot is confusing at some stages. Lost for words.