Loved the story and the characters. Never leaves you hanging except when you can't wait to watch more. Very well written and it's a series that is just the right length for a 1 day binge.

At last. A really tightly plotted thriller that is intelligent, never sags, keeps you on a knife edge and manages in the the end to both satisfy and surprise. Brilliant writing. Great acting. Best UK thriller I've seen in years. And NOT about another serial killer! More please.

I usually love English series for their subtle-ness and rich characters. This show is the opposite. One stereotype after the other! ... They even have TWO scenes with a bus running someone over when the script has nowhere to go! ... The initial setup is one we have seen MILLIONS of times ago: No one believes an innocent man except the main character. The "crowd" condemns this innocent man and rallies against him because they have nothing better to do ... and 14 years after the fact ... Hate for the sake of hating ... The main character is perfect and flawless and can go against anyone and never gives up, because ... oh yes, she is "fearless" ... her diet consists of vodka and cigarettes, never sleeps but has endless energy (except for the bags under her eyes) ... Constant flashbacks to some sixties protests that nobody cares about... A connection between a teen age murder and the highest CIA and UK politicians as well as, yes, lets throw ISIS in there why not, nobody pays attention to realism anyhow ... SPOILER: The last episode plants this big red herring around a supposed attempt against the main character which never happens... it is just there to fool us the audience ... bad scripting ... This series tries so hard to be memorable and ends up being totally implausible and forgettable ...

Once you got past the awful title sequence and the usual, dull latter-day accompanying title song, this six-part contemporary political thriller made for entertaining watching.Centring on lost-cause defence solicitor Helen McCrory's Jane Banfield's penchant for taking on tough cases for what might seem on the face of it unsympathetic defendants, she apparently quite happily lets the client and indeed the family of her clients stay over at her place. The main story here concerns the unsafe conviction of a young father for the murder 14 years ago of a 15 year old girl, mainly down to a confession forced out of him by an over-keen female police detective played by Wunmi Mosaku, who becomes one of the focal points for Banfield's later campaign for the man's release. There's a connected sub-plot too involving a young Syrian mother who is staying at Banfield's pending immigration clearance and whose absent husband is suspected of terrorist sympathies.The stories take many a twist and turn as you'd imagine over six episodes, involving a female mysterious American "fixer" with her own reasons for keeping the convicted "murderer" in jail, a senior British Whitehall mandarin in on the cover-up and in particular a new, young rising-star Labour politician who they seem to be helping to the top of the so-called political greasy pole, for their own ends. The fixer will stop at nothing to cover her tracks, including blackmail and attempted murder as she reports back to her ruthless U.S. Intelligence bosses and seems to keep one step of Banfield and her investigation until the latter's persistence pays off and the whole house of cards falls down in a dramatic conclusion outside the by-now new Labour leader's house.While much of the story seemed to credit Banfield with detective instincts of which Sherlock Holmes would be proud, as well as the usual unbelievable coincidences and fantastic high-level connections, the action was fast-moving and carried forward by a fluid production acted out well by a mostly quality cast with Michael Gambon in particularly fine form as the oily, senior British link in the American chain of deception although quite what comedian John Bishop was doing as Banfield's "bit-of-rough" current boyfriend, I'm not quite sure but it didn't have much to do with acting skills.It didn't look like there were markers laid down for future series featuring the Banfield character which would be a shame as her character is a strong one and one can easily imagine her returning a la "Prime Suspect's" Helen Mirren or "Happy Valley's" Sarah Lancashire, but be that as it may, this was superior small-screen drama well worth viewing.