martinu-2

I accept the points that other reviewers have made about there being much less light indoors and at night in Victorian England than there is nowadays. I'm all for authenticity. But even allowing for this, most of the scenes were lit so darkly that it was very difficult to tell what was going on. This episode (unlike the other other ones in the series) took "moody and atmospheric and authentic" way too far. We had indoor or night-time scenes in episode 1.2 "The Murder in Angel Lane" (which I've just watched, so I can make a fair comparison), but they were nowhere near as dingy: it was at least possible to see what was happening and which characters were present. And how ever dark and gloomy Victorian interiors and night-times may have been, that does not explain why the day-time scenes were also very dark - unless they were set during a solar eclipse ;-)