I'm surprised at the all of the glowing reviews I see here. I found this series lacking. First of all, the writing is not very good. The dialog rings hollow. None of the characters or their relationships ring true.
This series seems to be striving for the vacuous level of "glitz" that characterizes most American tv shows. The lab is ultra high tech, the tests are all amazing, the characters are like lab superheroes. I doubt that there's a lab that looks anything like this in Britain, or maybe in the world. Real labs are usually in an ugly basement and technicians don't just breeze through tests that appear in minutes.
If this sounds familiar, it's because it's the same setup that we saw in the CSI franchise, which eventually turned into a parody of a crime show.
Most British series focus more on acting and storytelling rather to rely on the kind of fairyland gloss that drives American tv. I hate to see British tv going down this path.
This series seems to be striving for the vacuous level of "glitz" that characterizes most American tv shows. The lab is ultra high tech, the tests are all amazing, the characters are like lab superheroes. I doubt that there's a lab that looks anything like this in Britain, or maybe in the world. Real labs are usually in an ugly basement and technicians don't just breeze through tests that appear in minutes.
If this sounds familiar, it's because it's the same setup that we saw in the CSI franchise, which eventually turned into a parody of a crime show.
Most British series focus more on acting and storytelling rather to rely on the kind of fairyland gloss that drives American tv. I hate to see British tv going down this path.