A compelling and distinctive crime series in which the characters talk directly to the audience
★★★★ BBC2, Thursday, 3 March, 9pm
THIS SHORT SERIES is unlike any other crime saga currently on the box. The characters don’t talk to each other, they talk to you about their involvement in a tragic case, breaking the imaginary fourth wall and relaying their frustrations, justifications and heartache.
What’s going on? That’s for you to decide as the accounts unfold. It’s an impressionistic and fluid exploration of events before and after a murder, and it is engrossing.
The Scottish setting of the first story, The Third Voice, is also beautifully filmed, with The Killing‘s director Birger Larsen at the helm. He also directed 2012’s excellent Murder: Joint Enterprise, which had a similar format.
The story is knotty – Rafe Carey and his brother-in-law Leo Durridge go fishing on the River Tweed. In what first appears to be a tragic accident, Rage ends up dead after the section of riverbank they were on is washed away in heavy rain.
Morven Christie as Sgt Evans
Except that Rafe is found by Sgt Corrine Evans’s team to have a stab wound. He was dead before he ended up in the water. Further complications arise when a witness reports hearing the voices of three men during the confrontation.
We also learn that Rafe (Frank Gilhooley) and Leo (Peter McDonald) had gone on the trip after Leo’s daughter Sonia died of meningitis while being looked after by Rafe and his wife. The fishing trip was supposed to be a chance to rebuild their relationship. [Read more…]
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