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Professor T doesn’t tread new ground. But the writing is solid and Miller and the rest of the cast do a good job of making the obsessive detective trope entertaining to watch.
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Unfortunately, it felt as if something had been lost in translation. That was despite a deliciously quirky performance by Ben Miller as cranky Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest.
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Sometimes the conclusions to the crimes can feel secondary to the driving personal stories. But when the balance works, such as with the siege story from the third episode, it’s a really strong combination – and makes for a fine addition to the detective genre.
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The premise is promising, and the cast – Miller, Naomi and de La Tour especially – give it a good shot. But there’s something disjointed about the way it all hangs together. To emphasise the sense of loneliness, the direction often frames speakers in conversation one at a time. It comes at the expense of camaraderie.
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If only the writers had embraced the quirkiness and made this a gentler affair it would have been fine. There is promise in Tempest’s story, but, please, can this be the last time that rape is used as cheap entertainment?
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It is as if two different dramas have been melded accidentally. Or if Death in Paradise (which Miller used to star in) had decided to show a full-on chainsaw massacre. Miller's acting skills save it, assisted by Emma Naomi (Bridgerton) as his detective sidekick, Lisa Donckers.