Like others I hung around disconsolately for years waiting for the second series that never materialised. But what we did get was a fabulous fast-paced, funny, insightful, fascinating, witty walloping drama with a brain. The acting is superb from the whole cast, I still luxuriate in watching and re-watching some of the pointy moments and the characterisations within. Rose's smile when she agrees with McLeish that he'll make the best godfather ever. Morag when she asks the evil prosecutor why she (the prosecutor) is childless. Ah ... Morag!! Each of the lead women were to die for (I'm male) -- I'd happily have married any of the female characters.
McLeish/Davis is superb in his presentation of the rough (and flawed) diamond gradually revealing a heart.
The story lines are not subtle, but they are damned satisfying, a real pleasure to get lost in.
Like some others I'm mystified that so few people seemed to watch this at the time, why it received so few contemporary plaudits, and why so few know about it today. Most of all I can't understand why it's not available now on DVD. It's almost criminal that such a high point of TV production, still just modern enough not to seem dated, is not available in any form anywhere (legally I mean).
Perhaps it's perceived as having no appeal to 95% of the population and no appeal at all to an American audience. None-the-less such a rarely intelligent production deserves to be available and promoted to the sizable minority who did and would enjoy it.
McLeish/Davis is superb in his presentation of the rough (and flawed) diamond gradually revealing a heart.
The story lines are not subtle, but they are damned satisfying, a real pleasure to get lost in.
Like some others I'm mystified that so few people seemed to watch this at the time, why it received so few contemporary plaudits, and why so few know about it today. Most of all I can't understand why it's not available now on DVD. It's almost criminal that such a high point of TV production, still just modern enough not to seem dated, is not available in any form anywhere (legally I mean).
Perhaps it's perceived as having no appeal to 95% of the population and no appeal at all to an American audience. None-the-less such a rarely intelligent production deserves to be available and promoted to the sizable minority who did and would enjoy it.