This is the first time I have written about a TV programme as though it were a book. It is a cop drama - but it is a fine quality drama, with a current of profound tragedy with flashes of happiness and humour.
It borrows from Scandi noir - it even borrows a well-known Scandinavian actor - but instead of the cold and bleakness of Sweden it shows the chrome and glass of London - also the scarred concrete and the underpasses. Somehow it is all lit in such a way that it's glamorised. But the setting showcases the feelings and the emotions are very profound.
Once again, modern day heroes are not simply ordinary fellows doing their jobs bravely, they are tortured souls. And so, in the way of the times in which we live, they take the medication prescribed for tortured souls and try to pretend everything's O.K. Like the city the medical health issue is glamorised.
I guess we must ask ourselves: "is this really the way to live"? I know I have posed this question before in my blog, when I wrote about "Silver Linings Playbook". If the world (society as we experience it) is so unbearably shitty, shouldn't we change it so we can deal with it? Make a society we can live in without medication? Is that a ridiculous thing to wish for?
But let us not take away from the drama, which is a fine piece of writing, and the leading actors are simply amazing.
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