UPDATE (15 July 2022): This second season moved much more at pace and really dispelled any reservations I had about the series. The unique nature of telling crime stories as close to the actual facts is to credit for this series being so well received. I had no idea how stringent the regulations are in the UK for dramatizing a real crime. Every person depicted in the drama had to sign off on the portrayal and the details of the case must be factual. I am giving the whole of this series an 8 (fascinating and moving) out of 10. [Real Crime Drama]
ORIGINAL REVIEW (11 July 2022): Having just finished the first season, I wanted to write down my preliminary thoughts. This is a very different kind of a police procedural, as it is meticulous in keeping it as close as possible to the events involved in actually solving these three cases. These were real crimes, 3 murders and an attempted murder committed by one man. The source material is a memoir of Colin Sutton, the lead investigator in these crimes who also collaborated in checking the accuracy of the series. As Martin Clunes, who plays Sutton, said in a Facebook Live interview, “It was a story worth telling because this is how crimes get solved. It’s not glamorous. Policemen don’t wear their best clothes to work. It takes a lot of hard, boring work, trolling through CCTV… and looking at everything.” The series was the highest rated new drama in the 2 years before it. The realism is a positive and a negative. The authenticity has a popular attraction but Clunes reminds us that it would be a mistake to forget that those girls were taken. The biggest challenge was to keep the story moving forward, dispute the tedium of the police work. It was a hard line for the production to walk. I’m giving this first season a 7 (a story worth watching) out of 10. [True Police Procedural]
Shout by Miguel A. ReinaBlockedParent2022-02-27T12:14:15Z
[Filmin] An interesting series that focuses more on police work in offices than on the usual criminal-police confrontation. S2 is superior to S1 because it humanizes the victims, showing them (elderly people sexually abused in their homes) above the aggressor, reflecting the shock and shame of admitting the rape. A solid show that abounds in budget problems and in the lack of coordination of the british police.