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There’s much to get your teeth into here. A shame, then, that the plotting lets it down.
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The murders are appropriately baroque for this sort of Euro-procedural, while Fraser and Purvis are always watchable, even if the premise begins to wear thin as the series evolves.
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Of course the “unlikely duo” is nothing new for TV cop drama either, but in the very overcrowded crime genre field this at least offers something different.
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While the series opener did lean into a number of cop caper clichés (the hard-nosed female detective, the dismissive male boss who refuses to listen to her), it’s Patience herself – and Purvis’s electric performance – that makes this Patience worth sticking with.
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It is deeply uninspired stuff, with more than a few plot holes. .... There is a potentially nice pseudo-maternal relationship established between Patience and Metcalf, but this only slightly offsets the clunkers elsewhere.