This quasi-french-british drama is entertaining enough but is ultimately yet another example of a show squandering its potential to go from being a "good" tv show to a "great" one. The premise starts out well: a professional crime-scene cleaner (Jean Bastiere) is forced to work for the London mob after falling into serious financial trouble, giving the mob essentially the invaluable ability to erase any trace of a murder. However, Jean's unwavering moral compass means he is fundamentally against this from the get-go and it only takes a few episodes before he's had enough and begins looking for a way out. A far more intriguing direction to take the plot would have been a more "Breaking Bad"-esque scenario in which Jean comes to accept and eventually revel in his new found second life and the viewer gets to enjoy all the unpredictable consequences that follow. Alas, it was not to be, and what we are left with is a mildly compelling but predictable ending.

The main character gets my sympathy immediately - first scene where his mother's lover is killed by him as a boy to protect his brother. As soon as his brother shows up with a body containing drugs, you know it's going to get much worse. What a beautiful family and predictably dragged into a world of death and betrayal. The tension up until the last episode had me fast forwarding to the conclusions of each loose end, but disappointed that his wife and children are missing without closure; and that the brother who slept with gangsters wife hasn't seen the end of her or her husband. Please, please, please continue with another season! There is so little to watch that has such talented writers, directors and a superb cast that fit each role perfectly.

Total Rip Off Snooze Fest. This "Spotless" should be paying a few different Shows it steals ideas from. It has moments of originality but they are shoehorned into the Show for effect without reason or even any effort to present the vaguest of logic. Not one person behaves in a believable fashion over the piece. The story swiftly becomes embarrassingly repeatedly contrived, and laughably Incredible. The main guys are dullards and you don't care about anyone in it. Appalling drivel. It's Full of a smug presumption that the viewers will accept any gimmicky twist or turn thrown at them. Staggeringly arrogant of them and, from the millions that switched off before it was scrapped in France, utterly wrongheaded. It comes across as if the original scripts were written in French, then translated into English by a non-English speaker.

I watched the first 6 episodes. The first two were intriguing and I thought the premise had a lot of possibilities. Good acting (except for the two French guys) reasonable dialogue, bit 'Hollywood' production. But watching almost an entire episode of the two supposedly nasty protagonists hammering away at each other while discussing the meaning of life, that was just too much ... too silly, too unrealistic, totally absurd. Who writes this crap ? It's like another series that came out a couple of years ago called The American. Great premise, great opening, then it just petered out with absurdities. I'm not going to bother with the rest of the series. Waste of time.