Pretty good show all around. Good production, good actors. Definitely slow as molasses though, with not a lot going on and very little action.
4 episodes in and I like the "bad" guy more than I like the protagonist. She is just not likeable and I have no care what happens to her. It's also very slow paced and it's kind of hard to like. I'll see what happens but so far.... there's nothing here.
After four episodes of this I can't watch any more. It's beyond glacially slow. Nobody is particularly likable and the plot is difficult to follow or get into. They tried to make a "dark" British cop show and ended up with this wanna-be artsy high production value series that misses the mark on everything except the actual production itself.
I'm having a hard time getting into this, the first episode is glacially slow and you really don't connect with anyone. I enjoy British police dramas and this one just isn't hitting the mark for me as of yet. I'm going to try to push through the first season but am not really looking forward to episode two.
AppleTV+ is a small player, but after See, Ted Lasso, Silo and Hijack they manage to again produce QUALITY. THIS is not a flashy, fast-paced tvshow. Criminal Record is real suspense and for sure a serie worth the time.
It's comical to read most of the male commenters just shread this. It is based on a real case, so cry babies about this isn't real world, too boring for them, she's a whatever, just comical how desperate pathetic men always feel like they have to advertise. Racism still exists. Misogyny still exists. Denying it just means these men are the racists and misogynists.
So on to the review:
I'm a huge fan of Peter Capaldi, and he truly delivers a first rate performance. You really never know throughout is he a bad guy or not. It's clear he didn't want to close cases the way this one was by the 2nd to last episode, but the final twist will take it full circle. Capaldi plays the character so well. I'm still wondering where did the character go wrong? No one is perfect, but at the same time, you leave feeling like he crossed so many lines. How many lines are too many?
There's some great elements and depth to his character, whereas the female character is basically the same as he is, just female. She's breaking rules to prove they did something wrong. She's right, but it's in stark contrast to his breaking rules when he was wrong. There's a couple deep underlying concepts. Is it really okay for a woman to be like a man? As I already pointed out, a lot of the whiny men commenting prove they still love that double standard. The other is about men being vulnerable. Every male character in this is written quite well, with depth. It's still pretty rare to see men exposed with crying, questioning themselves, or admitting to mistakes.
9/10. The female characters other than the lead female had very little into the back story. That might have been done better.
Kelly and Joey show recommendation
Lost interest in the show after the mostly White Company of Apple started preaching to all of us about race and how every black person is persecuted. What is it with these companies trying to divide us.
Boring way boring according to the standard of appletv series.
6/10 fair
Slow moving and ultimately disappointing….
The female police officer is just a bitch with one hell of a chip on her shoulder and is so unlikable.
She just needed to be killed off and in the true world she would have been dismissed from the force…..
A very decent show (season 1). Great actors the story had multiple twists, nice production and tense along the way. You were always wondering if and what he truly is. A nice addition for TV
I'm all for a good social justice narrative, but this is just lazy, aggressive, preachy writing. Every villain is an over-the-top misogynist white guy, and the heroes are all minority women. I mean, give me a few misogynists, but having a therapist husband who gaslights beyond all reason at every opportunity... what on earth?
The main character is insecure, selfish, and unlikeable. Give us someone noble, someone who cares more about right and wrong than proving herself. If you want me to cheer for the black women all you have to do is make her a person worth cheering for.
The corruption of the cops is blatant and obvious, and yet no one bats an eye. It's just absurd. They're way to smart to go from extremely professional and tactful to aggressive gaslighting where everyone can see. There's a whole investigation department for the slightest bullying accusation but constant, blatant, public demeaning and harassment is ignored by everyone?
Cmon. This is just bad writing.
(And the irony is it was written by white guys, lol.)
Shout by Miguel A. ReinaBlockedParent2024-01-26T12:02:51Z
[tv+] There is a tense construction in the two central characters of this show that manage to maintain a constant pulse throughout the entire season. Especially when it surrounds them with an ambiguity in which we sometimes doubt both the probable corrupt activities of Peter Capaldi's Hagerty and the psychological stability of Cush Jumbo's June Lenker. So the story always manages to stay on the knife's edge to lead to an outcome that is less predictable than it might seem. Which is already an important merit.