After two excellent episodes, Series three takes a little bit of a dip with The Point of Vanishing, it's by no means a bad episode, but after the sheer quality of the two previous offerings, this one's just a little off the pace.
I felt the story was a little off the pace, a clever concept, but the execution was perhaps a little muddled, at times I couldn't follow the story, the motives for some of the killings seemed confused. Even after a few viewings, it still doesn't seem to all fall into place.
There are definitely good points, Julian Wadham and Jenny Seagrove are both excellent in it, I also really enjoyed the performance of the ill fated Steven Mullan, Danny Midwinter was very good.
Were they trying to echo a scene from Inspector Morse, where Lewis received a disappointment about not getting a promotion? We see Hathaway's sullen face fall to new lows as he hears of a colleague's promotion. I loved Laurence Fox in this series, I just wish they'd given him some happy times now and then.
A good watch, the series is just much better in general. 7/10
I felt the story was a little off the pace, a clever concept, but the execution was perhaps a little muddled, at times I couldn't follow the story, the motives for some of the killings seemed confused. Even after a few viewings, it still doesn't seem to all fall into place.
There are definitely good points, Julian Wadham and Jenny Seagrove are both excellent in it, I also really enjoyed the performance of the ill fated Steven Mullan, Danny Midwinter was very good.
Were they trying to echo a scene from Inspector Morse, where Lewis received a disappointment about not getting a promotion? We see Hathaway's sullen face fall to new lows as he hears of a colleague's promotion. I loved Laurence Fox in this series, I just wish they'd given him some happy times now and then.
A good watch, the series is just much better in general. 7/10