The second hour left us with a tantalising cliff-hanger. Lady Bristow the crime drama essential ‘senescent/dementia-suffering person who drip-feeds crucial info in gnomic half-sentences’. ![]() ![]() Tansy the unhappy coke-addicted wife of a billionaire movie producer. Do Duffield’s designer leather gloves point to his guilt? Or is ‘Uncle’ Tony the one Lula was arguing with before she fell? Could John Bristow be somehow playing Cormoran like a fiddle? Of whom did Lula tell her adoptive mother she was scared? Strike and Robin will sniff out the truth, patiently following one clue, then the next, and the next.Īnd they’ll be surrounded by brightly painted characters while they do so. We learned from his half-sister that Strike has doubts over whether their mother-whose death was also ruled to be a suicide-was really murdered, lending a personal dimension to Lula’s case.Ī need for professional distance didn’t stop Strike getting up close and personal with Lula’s best friend Ciara (Amber Anderson), who was also his path to Lula’s ridiculous Pete Doherty-style rock star boyfriend Evan Duffield (Bronson Webb). You know what you’re getting and you know you’re going to enjoy it.Įpisode two, which took Strike further into the upscale world of expired supermodel Lula Landry, was enjoyable stuff. It’s a satisfying, traditional roast dinner of a crime drama. ![]() You could stumble upon this as a weekday afternoon repeat on a digital channel in a few years’ time and it’d give you the warming joy of discovering an unwatched Morse – good story, entertaining characters, and a plot that goes from A to B to C without fannying about.
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