Believe all the reviews. It's really really awful. I am sad to say I wasted four hours of my life... the melodrama, the bad one dimensional acting...and the end...oh god ...the end... No, don't waste your time. It's so awful that I can't even come up with 5 lines of text to trash it. It was inconsistent, hard to follow, over the top melodramatic and had a ridiculous ending. There, done - don't waste your time.

I feel as though I deserve a medal for having watched all four episodes of this undramatic drama only to be disappointed each week. As many other reviewers have already said the plot line was so bad that is was only saved from being the worse thing about the series by the awful writing. More angst than action which, unfortunately, appears to be the latest fad in most of the multi part dramas being forced upon us these days. Nostalgia overwhelms me as I remember the good old days when catch up and recordings did not exist and I would have watched and enjoyed Downton Abbey without putting myself through the misery of watching this series.

Watching this was painful. I only watched it all in the hope that the ending would make up for the rest of the slow moving drivel.The main characters did not engage the viewer in any way. I didn't really care what happened to them! I felt no chemistry whatsoever between the two main leads and yet we're supposed to believe that they are suppressing a love so great that they might give up their far more attractive current partners to be together!The character Claire Church kept running away, coming back, running away. Only a few weeks ago I drove to the Isle of Skye and back and it's not a journey you take on lightly, even by train! Supposedly an intelligent ex detective, what exactly was she thinking when she behaved as she did at the wedding they crashed? Deliberately getting plastered, making a ridiculous scene and coming on to her DCI colleague and ex lover. I'm sure the writer could have achieved a similar plot mechanism without contriving unrealistically that experienced DCIs may behave in such a dumb and ill-considered way.The ending was equally pathetic and it's left the door open for a follow up. No witnesses to the shooting, so Church could claim self-defence and act out even more angst over her actions. Also DCI John Hind was still breathing, which in a similar manner unfortunately, might mean that someone may consider there's still life in this nonsense!If so, I won't be investing any more time in this. I'm out.

Yet another British triumph of style over substance, with long, agonising looks into the distance and police procedural work that makes no sense at all - e.g. a civilian "consultant" trapising around crime scenes unescorted and unsupervised. It's focal point is the now standard protagonist-with-painful-past who has "history" with a former colleague. Wow, how original.It's the pacing that did it for me and like that dire series a couple of years ago with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan (so poor that I can't be bothered trying to remember the name), it seems to take forever for the characters to react or respond to any on screen stimuli, even when in mortal danger. Instead we are treated to extreme close- ups of their angst-ridden faces - example ***SPOILER*** the main character breaks into a suspects house, quickly finds irrefutable evidence, then stares at it vacantly for what seems like forever. In REAL life, she would have GTF out of there and called the cavalry.Avoid.