The Control Room (TV Series) Episode #1.3 (2022) User Reviews

Cracking final episode.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 23 July 2022]

Gabe finally learns the truth, and becomes very much aware that everyone and everything has a price.

I've been impressed with this series from the off, and I have to say I think this third episode has been the best of the lot.

Being a three part series really did help, sometimes it's so hard to commit to the six parters, it meant the pacing was a positive.

Plenty going on, drama, twists and turns, even fisticuffs. The plot was really cohesive, I loved how everything ties together neatly and satisfyingly. All of the questions that were asked are answered, and we learn exactly what the young Sam and Gabo were up to that night.

It's a breathless watch again, you'll see Gabe running around again, he must be incredibly fit.

Worked incredibly well, 8/10.

Episode 3

[Prismark10 · 3/10 · 28 August 2022]

The final episode managed to tie everything up with lots of twists and turn.

Unfortunately it was too convoluted for its own good. Just too difficult to take seriously.

That phone call to Gabe in the first episode was not random. He was being played by both Sam and Anthony.

The Control Room was a front for gangsters. Anthony was using it to sell information and other things for the crooks he was working for.

Iain De Caestecker did well to sell a tortured performance. The whole thing relied on his gullibility which he provided.

It was all too far fetched though. The plot needed a bit more control.

Awful

[karris-29463 · 2/10 · 25 September 2022]

Was hoping this might redeem itself in the last episode but it contrived to be more ridiculous than the previous episode. I think it was fairly obvious to all that there was no body in the van - a van looking remarkably in good shape considering it had been rammed just days before. We find out Sam was 'in on it' yet our dim main character still sides with her. His ever-so-convenient neighbour is somehow able to instantly forge documents (clearly the police don't have a computer to check) making Gabe the owner of the van and he can just go and collect it! And the far fetched ending where within 4 minutes of a call to 999, an entire Armed Police division can find his exact location in a pine forest and all arrive in absolute silence and save the day. And despite the many crimes Gabe will now be charged with, he is allowed to run back into the forest to his dad's house to hug him. Absolutely ridiculous and about as beyond far fetched as you can get.