A good start with a strong cast again but , as with the previous storyline, it does feel as though the story is being panned out.
An emotive subject matter being treated sensitively.
A shocking close to the episode.
3 Reviews
Virginia Bottomley!
xmasdaybaby196611 February 2021
A sensitive subject, sensitively explored
grantss21 February 2023
(Review is of all three parts)
A serial rapist is on the loose and the police have no solid leads. Fitz is assisting and has provided as best a profile he can with the information provided. The next victim, however, hits very close to home.
A Cracker episode that deals with the sensitive subject of rape. It's the sort of thing that's hard to tackle as it is so emotionally charged and likely to be triggering for someone who's been a victim of it.
However, here the writers manage to craft a great story revolving around a serial rapist that is very empathetic and understanding towards the victims while also demonstrating how people handle it, or don't. Highly engaging as we see it from the victim's perspective and from the side of their friends, colleagues and loved ones. We also have the neanderthal's view, as demonstrated by DS Beck and some other (male) police officers.
An excellent episode and a welcome return to form as the previous 3-parter, while not bad, was rather long-winded and a bit of a slog at times.
A serial rapist is on the loose and the police have no solid leads. Fitz is assisting and has provided as best a profile he can with the information provided. The next victim, however, hits very close to home.
A Cracker episode that deals with the sensitive subject of rape. It's the sort of thing that's hard to tackle as it is so emotionally charged and likely to be triggering for someone who's been a victim of it.
However, here the writers manage to craft a great story revolving around a serial rapist that is very empathetic and understanding towards the victims while also demonstrating how people handle it, or don't. Highly engaging as we see it from the victim's perspective and from the side of their friends, colleagues and loved ones. We also have the neanderthal's view, as demonstrated by DS Beck and some other (male) police officers.
An excellent episode and a welcome return to form as the previous 3-parter, while not bad, was rather long-winded and a bit of a slog at times.
Rape!
ygwerin12 June 2022
Times change but attitudes can be slow to evolve, this episode explores some of those surrounding Rape, the issue that understandably and quite rightly, women consider as the supreme crime, but one that men somehow can't take seriously.
Men prefer to 'joke it off with their mates' while telling female colleagues, "never mind feminism and hairy arsed lesbians, come and have a drink with your mates".
And of a male colleague that, "Your twisted, your a pervert, and you'll make a bloody good policeman" while the Macho man can claim that, "I'm a man I don't need to rape, I get plenty of offers".
Rape as an issue gives old school coppers like DS Beck, an excuse to take out his frustrations against what, they regard as the usual suspects as, "they are all known perverts so you can have a go and no one will care".
The same justification that a husband whose wife has been raped, may use to excuse him from venting his spleen, against a suspect that the police had to release through his innocence.
While through it all the actual rapist cruises the city streets, eagerly searching for his next victim, except that in his manic psyche is it really rape that he is after, or is he really just a better lover, more of a real mans man than her other half?
Men prefer to 'joke it off with their mates' while telling female colleagues, "never mind feminism and hairy arsed lesbians, come and have a drink with your mates".
And of a male colleague that, "Your twisted, your a pervert, and you'll make a bloody good policeman" while the Macho man can claim that, "I'm a man I don't need to rape, I get plenty of offers".
Rape as an issue gives old school coppers like DS Beck, an excuse to take out his frustrations against what, they regard as the usual suspects as, "they are all known perverts so you can have a go and no one will care".
The same justification that a husband whose wife has been raped, may use to excuse him from venting his spleen, against a suspect that the police had to release through his innocence.
While through it all the actual rapist cruises the city streets, eagerly searching for his next victim, except that in his manic psyche is it really rape that he is after, or is he really just a better lover, more of a real mans man than her other half?
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