A very good friend recommended this to me and DH, didn't give us any details just said it was excellent, so we downloaded the first four episodes and watched it last night.
Well there was I expecting a sort of updated Heartbeatish type thing...
Like other posters I think this is an excellent drama, really gripping, compulsive if difficult viewing.
The murder of the young policewoman was just evisceratingly awful, the sound of the car going over her was dreadful, I couldn't get that scene out of my mind all last night. Also the final scene of episode four, gut-wrenching. I was screaming at the TV too, and I mistakenly thought that was the last episode so relieved (in a bizarre way) that there are two more to go, hopefully all the loose ends will be tied up, and come-uppances galour will be meted out.
I think all the characters are well drawn and the acting is terrific.
The scene with Ryan at the famly dinner and the words of his granddad afterwards were so sad, how could anyone blame that poor child.
As for Kevin and his wife, I want to do him serious damage when he keeps saying "I can't do that it's money" FFS!! Commented to DH that if he came home and told me about a kidnap plot for money, my first reaction would be to call the police, second a solicitor for a divorce. I mean really, Kevin's wife, really???
I wonder what shocks and twist and turns we're in for next week.