Doing a Prime Suspect marathon and you can tell how production values have been raised in this later instalment. It is typical Prime Suspect material, very well done - there are some twists and turns but it seems to be the premise of the show that they reveal who the culprits are fairly early on and the plot is all about finding ways to prove it in order to arrest and convict. Mirren is, as always, excellent and this was a thoroughly enjoyable watch.
I do shrug when they make the story international and include trips abroad to make the story feel more epic. They've done it quite a few times in Silent Witness (most episodes were average) and they did it at the second season of the Danish The Killing. Here it seems to have been handled quite well though. Travelling to Bosnia makes you wonder how they justify their expenses...
There are some clumsy moments - the hospital scene at the end of the first part was silly, all those police officers trying to find the cleaner when they could have used CCTV camera? As they did in the beginning of the second part? I wish we'd also see the repercussions on Tennison for her disregard of very senior government officials.....
I do shrug when they make the story international and include trips abroad to make the story feel more epic. They've done it quite a few times in Silent Witness (most episodes were average) and they did it at the second season of the Danish The Killing. Here it seems to have been handled quite well though. Travelling to Bosnia makes you wonder how they justify their expenses...
There are some clumsy moments - the hospital scene at the end of the first part was silly, all those police officers trying to find the cleaner when they could have used CCTV camera? As they did in the beginning of the second part? I wish we'd also see the repercussions on Tennison for her disregard of very senior government officials.....