I was so disappointed with this, turned it on expecting to love it but it was so cliche ridden. I don’t know if it was deliberate but it felt to me like it couldn’t make up its mind whether it was set in 1984 (which must have been around when the first book was set) or 2024. The decor, the clothes, the general vibe - 2024, really? Clothes and sets were really peculiar. This Rebus is younger than me and I have no idea where you would even get a sofa like the one he has and Edinburgh posh kids of that age are absolutely not going round in long camel jackets. George’s house with all the weird brickwork? It was like someone’s idea of how these people would have been 40 years ago with the word “Instagram” thrown in occasionally when the scriptwriter remembered it was supposed to be current. The only people who looked like they existed in the present day in terms of presentation were Siobhan and the two nephews.
Is it really unusual for police officers to have degrees nowadays? If his brother loved being in the army why did he leave? There didn’t seem to be a reason given and I don’t think it worked well if there was a point being made about post-army life.
The Rebus of the books has a moral compass and is wise but often dragged down by cynicism.
This Rebus is a tube, didn’t care what happened to him and if his ex does get back together with him then she’s a tube too.
Big house definitely Glasgow not Edinburgh and why couldn’t they at least have let Rebus live in Arden St? Was it a nod to realism as a 2-bed flat there would be unaffordable to most single people unless on a high salary.
Not relevant to this but I’d really like to see something written set in working class communities that showed people as just normal and not everything all grim and weird.