The leading actor, Amanda Burton, was never suitable for this role as it was too similar to her other role in Silent Witness, where a female senior figure in a male-dominated world is far too involved in the cases for someone of that rank.
The show peaked with its first two episodes and was an enjoyable, if not farfetched, nonsensical watch; however, the show's quality gradually declined as each series became ever more surreal and detached from reality.
The final episode jumps the shark of credulity for a show already stretching believability and credibility beyond its natural norm.
And although this show is a drama, like all good dramas, it should be grounded in some recognisable form of reality in which we all exist and understand.
This police unit of the Met was hugely unprofessional, incompetent, and, at times, corrupt. You would hope that in the real world, if such a unit were to exist, it would be disbanded, starting with the so-called Commander.
It didn't help that an actor from the first series was recast and that the middle and later series dropped some other characters entirely.
At the start of this series, I rated it an enjoyable but implausible eight, but by the ludicrous end, it was an unbelievable five.
The show peaked with its first two episodes and was an enjoyable, if not farfetched, nonsensical watch; however, the show's quality gradually declined as each series became ever more surreal and detached from reality.
The final episode jumps the shark of credulity for a show already stretching believability and credibility beyond its natural norm.
And although this show is a drama, like all good dramas, it should be grounded in some recognisable form of reality in which we all exist and understand.
This police unit of the Met was hugely unprofessional, incompetent, and, at times, corrupt. You would hope that in the real world, if such a unit were to exist, it would be disbanded, starting with the so-called Commander.
It didn't help that an actor from the first series was recast and that the middle and later series dropped some other characters entirely.
At the start of this series, I rated it an enjoyable but implausible eight, but by the ludicrous end, it was an unbelievable five.