I had high hopes for this series as I had enjoyed all of "Foyle's War". The acting and dialogue were natural and the stories were fresh and original. My estimate of Anthony Horowitz as more than a writer of juvenile stories went up.
Three episodes into "New Blood" and I am not greatly impressed. Either (a) I have seen far too much many television programmes, plus I am turning grumpy with age or (b) the quality of programmes really has deteriorated.
"New Blood" dishes out the same tropes we have seen numerous times: government-private enterprise collusion, corrupt pharmaceutical company, clandestine organization of assassins, a group of people being steadily eliminated, incompetent jaded cops and the eager young trainee detective along with his newly found buddy who are the only ones with insight.
On top of this, we are treated to: awful music and a combination of poor acting, dialogue, directing and editing: as an example of the latter, a series of jumpy shots of London that do not advance the story and only hurt the eyes. Formerly, a TV series would have a memorable piece of theme music; nowadays our ears are torn with some awful song.
There is an air of silliness; they are trying for a buddy-buddy Butch Cassidy- Sundance Kid interaction between the two young protagonists, but it does not come off and the attempts at comedy are lame.
Three episodes into "New Blood" and I am not greatly impressed. Either (a) I have seen far too much many television programmes, plus I am turning grumpy with age or (b) the quality of programmes really has deteriorated.
"New Blood" dishes out the same tropes we have seen numerous times: government-private enterprise collusion, corrupt pharmaceutical company, clandestine organization of assassins, a group of people being steadily eliminated, incompetent jaded cops and the eager young trainee detective along with his newly found buddy who are the only ones with insight.
On top of this, we are treated to: awful music and a combination of poor acting, dialogue, directing and editing: as an example of the latter, a series of jumpy shots of London that do not advance the story and only hurt the eyes. Formerly, a TV series would have a memorable piece of theme music; nowadays our ears are torn with some awful song.
There is an air of silliness; they are trying for a buddy-buddy Butch Cassidy- Sundance Kid interaction between the two young protagonists, but it does not come off and the attempts at comedy are lame.