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Disillusioned Detective Danny Frater visits the mortuary to see the body of a young girl, in a cruel twist of fate, he knows her identity.

Everyone I know who's watched this show, has absolutely slated it, but as always, I'll judge it on its own merits.

The story itself is a good one, it's gritty, and it does have the shock factor, the issue I have is more so with the behaviour of the two characters.

I know that pathologists have a reputation on TV for being procedural, cold and lacking the human touch, but Jackie's behaviour towards Danny is diabolical, I'm not sure of the history or present between the two, but her behaviour is shocking towards the grieving man.

The shirt running time is perhaps a benefit here, had this been 45 or 60 minutes long, it would have dragged on endlessly, 24 minutes did mean that the story moved on at pace.

I'm not wowed by it, but James Nesbitt is always worth watching.

6/10.

Oh dear!

On hear that Eagle Eye Drama was making this; I watched the original Danish show was pretty bad (series 2 was poor) but this translation of a scandi noir is awful.

I appreciate it was filmed during the pandemic but there is nothing new here to see.

James Nesbitt has done a few under par shows and this adds to the list.

Eagle Eye Drama have done some good original shows like Hotel Portifino and a couple of animated Christmas specials but their remakes show little or no originality (give Before aWe Die a miss too).

Ben Miller starred in the half-decent remake of Professor T (the original was so good it was impossible to fail) but his small part here couldn't save this.

It's going to be a long 4 hours but we do have the fanciable Niamh Algar in the next episode.

Suspect might have a starry cast but the first episode is essentially a two hander. It is also a remake of a Scandinavian noir drama.

Detective Sergeant Danny Frater (James Nesbitt) is one of those rough tough, straight to the point detectives.

He enters the morgue to discuss with the pathologist Jackie Sowden (Joely Richardson) about a young unidentified woman that was found, a suicide victim.

Frater is shocked to find that the body on the slab is his estranged daughter Christina and flips.

Jackie tries to calm him down but he insists that his daughter would not have committed suicide.

At half a hour the two part concept works well although other actors do appear.

Nesbitt has a difficult role to pull off. It is hard to sympathise with him as Frater appears to be out of control and unprofessional.

It was hard to tell how this series would go from the first episode. Surely it has to be more than suicide. I did think the writing was uneven.