Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist who helps the Manchester Police profile and interview criminals. While he is incredibly gifted in his chosen career his personal life is a mess: he's a chain-smoking, gambling-addicted alcoholic and his wife keeps threatening to leave him.
An excellent crime-drama series. Gritty, with realistic plots and characters. The crime side is cleverly done, especially Fitz's deductions and other inputs into the investigations. The police work is also quite realistically done, showing the amount of grunt work that goes into solving crimes and catching criminals.
Good character drama too and with continuity between episodes this provides a great arc to the series. The relationships between Fitz and his family and colleagues are very interesting.
Not always brilliant though. The move to 3-episode stories in Season 2 made for one or two overly drawn out stories. The final two "special" episodes - the episode set in Hong Kong and the return of Fitz in 2006 - weren't anywhere near the quality of the original series.
An excellent crime-drama series. Gritty, with realistic plots and characters. The crime side is cleverly done, especially Fitz's deductions and other inputs into the investigations. The police work is also quite realistically done, showing the amount of grunt work that goes into solving crimes and catching criminals.
Good character drama too and with continuity between episodes this provides a great arc to the series. The relationships between Fitz and his family and colleagues are very interesting.
Not always brilliant though. The move to 3-episode stories in Season 2 made for one or two overly drawn out stories. The final two "special" episodes - the episode set in Hong Kong and the return of Fitz in 2006 - weren't anywhere near the quality of the original series.