BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Msbnitski Loved the story and the characters. Never leaves you hanging except when you can't wait to watch more. Very well written and it's a series that is just the right length for a 1 day binge.

watson-08044 Brilliant series that had me totally captivated. Probably one of the best I have seen is some time. I certainly hope for Series 2,3,4,,,, Great plot, acting and cliffhangers.

jc-osms Once you got past the awful title sequence and the usual, dull latter-day accompanying title song, this six-part contemporary political thriller made for entertaining watching.Centring on lost-cause defence solicitor Helen McCrory's Jane Banfield's penchant for taking on tough cases for what might seem on the face of it unsympathetic defendants, she apparently quite happily lets the client and indeed the family of her clients stay over at her place. The main story here concerns the unsafe conviction of a young father for the murder 14 years ago of a 15 year old girl, mainly down to a confession forced out of him by an over-keen female police detective played by Wunmi Mosaku, who becomes one of the focal points for Banfield's later campaign for the man's release. There's a connected sub-plot too involving a young Syrian mother who is staying at Banfield's pending immigration clearance and whose absent husband is suspected of terrorist sympathies.The stories take many a twist and turn as you'd imagine over six episodes, involving a female mysterious American "fixer" with her own reasons for keeping the convicted "murderer" in jail, a senior British Whitehall mandarin in on the cover-up and in particular a new, young rising-star Labour politician who they seem to be helping to the top of the so-called political greasy pole, for their own ends. The fixer will stop at nothing to cover her tracks, including blackmail and attempted murder as she reports back to her ruthless U.S. Intelligence bosses and seems to keep one step of Banfield and her investigation until the latter's persistence pays off and the whole house of cards falls down in a dramatic conclusion outside the by-now new Labour leader's house.While much of the story seemed to credit Banfield with detective instincts of which Sherlock Holmes would be proud, as well as the usual unbelievable coincidences and fantastic high-level connections, the action was fast-moving and carried forward by a fluid production acted out well by a mostly quality cast with Michael Gambon in particularly fine form as the oily, senior British link in the American chain of deception although quite what comedian John Bishop was doing as Banfield's "bit-of-rough" current boyfriend, I'm not quite sure but it didn't have much to do with acting skills.It didn't look like there were markers laid down for future series featuring the Banfield character which would be a shame as her character is a strong one and one can easily imagine her returning a la "Prime Suspect's" Helen Mirren or "Happy Valley's" Sarah Lancashire, but be that as it may, this was superior small-screen drama well worth viewing.

Tweekums Protagonist Emma Banville is a human rights lawyer who takes on the sort of cases most lawyers wouldn't touch with a barge pole. She already has the wife of a man the authorities believe is working with terrorists in Syria living in her house and now she has also taken on the case of Kevin Russell; a man who was convicted of killed a school girl fourteen years previously. Everybody seems to think he is guilty, even his son doesn't want anything to do with him but as Emma starts asking questions and looking at the evidence she starts to think that there is a connection between the girl's death and a nearby US air base and a secret meeting that took place on the eve on the invasion of Iraq. As she tries to investigate this link the powers that be on both sides of the Atlantic try to make sure she doesn't find out what really happened… what that is, is far from obvious.This ITV drama was rather impressive; I liked how an apparent miscarriage of justice in the case of the murder of a school girl could expand into a political drama with major players on both sides of the Atlantic. There are some good twists along the way, as well as a couple that are a little far-fetched but not enough to spoil my enjoyment. Helen McCrory does a great job as Banville and is able supported by a fine cast that includes Jamie Bamber as an up and coming Labour MP, Robin Weigert as the sinister Heather Myles and Wunmi Mosaku as the police officer originally in charge of the case. The final resolution does require some suspension of disbelief… would the powers that be really frame somebody for murder when they could have been just left another unsolved hit-and-run tragedy. Still that isn't really a problem as without that choice we'd have no story. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to anybody after a drama with political undertones.