Firstly, the programme has an interesting structure.
The audience is introduced to several characters. Then a body is discovered and the cold case is handed over to the investigating team who start their investigation. The action cuts between the investigating team and the other characters. Over the course of the investigation and programme they are revealed to have had some involvement with the victim and they react to the investigation.
Secondly, an important part of the character of the lead detectives is that they are focused on the humanity of the victim and the programme brings to light the humanity of (mostly) the victim, turning them from an object of interest to the detectives and an object of inconvenience to the murderer back in to a human being.
Thirdly, the performances by Walker in particular but also Bhaskar are skilled and empathetic. The script is subtle. Walker reminds me of Mark Rylance as Cromwell. They don't need to be damaged or damaging in order to have and elicit emotion. They are professional people, calm and composed, deeply skilled in their craft and yet still affected and affecting. When they become emotional it feels real rather than histrionic.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2018-08-13 09:15 am (UTC)Firstly, the programme has an interesting structure.
The audience is introduced to several characters. Then a body is discovered and the cold case is handed over to the investigating team who start their investigation. The action cuts between the investigating team and the other characters. Over the course of the investigation and programme they are revealed to have had some involvement with the victim and they react to the investigation.
Secondly, an important part of the character of the lead detectives is that they are focused on the humanity of the victim and the programme brings to light the humanity of (mostly) the victim, turning them from an object of interest to the detectives and an object of inconvenience to the murderer back in to a human being.
Thirdly, the performances by Walker in particular but also Bhaskar are skilled and empathetic. The script is subtle. Walker reminds me of Mark Rylance as Cromwell. They don't need to be damaged or damaging in order to have and elicit emotion. They are professional people, calm and composed, deeply skilled in their craft and yet still affected and affecting. When they become emotional it feels real rather than histrionic.