Having binged Happy Valley's all 3 seasons in one go, I felt a need for some more dour Brits barking incomprehensible garbage as they charged up and down waggling their truncheons.
I don't know why I hadn't cottoned on to HV before that - I suspect the name put me off (I KNOW it's ironic) and also I thought it was a long running saga like Silent Witness, where I'd have to spend several years catching up. When I discovered I was only 12 hours behind come the recent iteration, I was in there quicker than Hancock onto the kangaroo testicles. (odd analogy, I know, it's Sunday). Anyway, this offering had not just cops and drug dealers, but a corrupt cop to boot, therefore shades of LOD (all about the acronyms). I excitedly sat down to watch Better. It wasn't. It was ok, but the central charcters were not half as engaging and the whole thing just felt a bit flat. And I was peeved that they bumped off the best character in it, the excellently Dickensian named Vernon Marley, played by Anton Lesser. His character was complex and intriguing, the rest felt paint by numbers.
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