I suppose I shouldn't have watched this straight after watching The Fall, but I doubt that would have made much difference to my appreciation of this short series. The script was a major letdown. Dialogue and characterisattion were abysmal, and the total lack of narrative tension left me feeling I'd wasted four hours of my life for no good reason. Ah well, c'est la vie.

The current score, 6.7, is much too low for this miniseries. It was high enough to get me to give it a try, and I'm so glad I did, binge-watching it in two evenings. The story is engrossing and the cast, especially Carey Mulligan, is terrific.

On the usual line, "BBC" is a sign of high quality, and I have seen lots of good series even from recent years (e.g. Broadchurch, Luther, Endeavour, Lewis and many others), so any other production excites my interest, particularly when the number of episodes is not too big - enabling to follow in a compressed way. Plus names like Mulligan or Simm - the result could be catchy hours? But alas not this time - not to a great degree. Apparently, the creators wanted to stress their own positive agenda, but all this at the expense of thrill and witty twists and turns, with several unnecessary characters and sidelines not providing any additional value to the main storyline. The wrongdoers were revealed too soon and the ending resembled a round-up of a US romantic film, not providing full satisfaction.This series is a good example that multiple good character actors are unable to save an arid and politically correct script. Even in the 2010ies, there are dozens of British series better than Collateral. Thus, not a must-watch, but no wtf! work either. You have all been warned :)

I know I can be quite generous when it comes to reviewing shows, but when there's quality there I will always point out. Even I am struggling to pick out huge positives for Collateral, I enjoyed the opening episode, I was very impressed by the acting and production values, but somehow it just seems to fall short. I delayed watching it as I watched Trauma, stupid to transmit two shows with John Sim simultaneously. Trauma came in for some major criticism, but I quite liked it, at least it gave Sim a chance to show of his acting quality. I made the right choice as Collateral seems to promise so much, just not deliver, it was a little confusing, a little too clever for its own good and just a little uninspiring. I quite liked the story, but the execution didn't really do it justice. Had the series had episode one's quality all the way through it would have gotten a much higher rating. Not bad, should have been excellent. 6/10