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Crime. Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Dougray Scott, Joanna Vanderham, Jamie Sives, Michael Abubaker, Gordon Kennedy, Angela Griffin, Ken Stott, Derek Riddell, Jonathan Kerrigan, Stuart Martin, Elle Haddington, Ewan Stewart, Laura Fraser, John Simm, Emma Hartley-Miller, Sarah McCardie, Alison McKenzie, Brian Bovell, Kim Chapman, Sorcha Groundsell, Paige Green, Ian Hanmore, Moyo Akendé, Bhav Joshi, Brian James Leys.

We demand that our police force be corruption free, that our detectives be without vice, that the thin blue line be rigid and unyielding, but never allowed to go beyond what is reasonable and defined by law in the pursuit of justice…

The Victim. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 9/10

Cast: Kelly Macdonald, James Harkness, John Hannah, Chloe Pirrie, Ramon Tikaram, Jamie Sives, Joanne Thomson, Pooky Quesnel, John Scougall, Cal MacAninch, Alison McKenzie, Nicholas Nunn, Karla Crome, Isis Hainsworth, Georgie Glen, Seylan Baxter, David Goodall, Zak Leyni, Caron Rae Brand.

We can never truly understand what goes through the mind of a murderer, for some it is a moment of insanity in which they cannot explain the event or their feelings towards the act in any manner that makes sense to the system or the potential psychiatrist who wishes to probe into the complexity of the situation; for others it is a marker, of dominance, of power, of holding a life in the grip of their hands and understanding full well the implications of their actions, and the possible thrill they get as they watch from a close enough distance their act being investigated.