First Draft

There is only one Marple.

I was really impressed with Sean Bean and Stephen Graham in BBC One’s Accused. I thought Sean took to the role really well and gave it a sense of dignity especially given all of the emotions his character(s) went through. 

Bravo!

Cute!

The more I’ve seen of this show the more I’ve gone off it. The initial ideas of the show were interesting, the first series based on The Ripper, the second on The Krays, but they were poorly executed, especially the latter which i enjoyed more but I felt the ending was weak, not to mention the story line got a little silly towards the end. The third series however just seemed to be falling to pieces. All of the episodes seem to focus around similar plot points where the main suspect is introduced early on in the episode and until they are discovered there is a wild goose chase which ensues of which you are to assume this is all relevent, but it’s not. It seems like ITV are trying to produce quality drama like Prime Suspect but falling after a couple of hurdles. Everything seems too generic, even Chandler who has to be quirky in someway, but why? I do hope that if there is another series it does improve but they would need to get rid of Buchan for that; his character is annoying and pointless. This whole notion of looking back to previous crimes, all of which now seem to be American, doesn’t speed things up at all and seems like it is all unnecessary padding.