That was an excellent one.

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Am I Missing Something?

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Watched "the making of" documentary with an interview with the original author talking cobblers. No, it is not common for serial killers to have partners. It is rare. Most are loners. The author made his killer a woman because of an anecdote by a worker in a psychiatric ward who claimed they were most afraid of the female inmates. Not a good enough reason to make his character a serial killer, which is very rare on the distaff side, let alone in the middle to upper classes. Add to that some banal observations on the moral deception of beauty and hey Presto.This is in fact the usual middle class wankery, enjoying the frisson of playing with "dark" subject matter. Once again, the murder of children is nauseatingly paraded. Aren't we all sick of this? In one stupid scene we are expected to believe a five year old could commit a violent murder with a knife like the beginning of "Halloween". I hope it was computer faked because it would be pretty reprehensible to stage the whole thing with a kid for real.The silliest moment is the sex scene between a wrinkled old priest and a gorgeous young girl with pneumatic breasts. Typical writers fantasy that. In the real world he'd be lucky to get it on with a bag lady in his congregation, if that.On the plus side, I have a thing for Emilia Fox. Just as well, as she's in bloody everything.

The series is not a typical whodunit story that seems to flood the TV channels regularly, where the police have crimes and have to work out who is the killer. This production shows us the killer Rosemary/Angel first and we see her as this cold and calculating woman and she just comes across as this horrible person who has kidnapped a child as revenge against the child's father (Michael) and grandmother (wendy). The series then shifts to the characters of Wendy and David who happens to be Rosie's father and minister and they examine all the events leading up to her becoming a killer and what made her mind become twisted and they go back in time and remember what could have contributed to her being the person she is today.This is very unique because the thriller then becomes a rewind drama. In the second part, we see Rosemary as a teenager in 1991. The audience is shown what life was like for her at this time, she does not get on with her new stepmother, her father is absorbed in his own problems, she is attracted to a man who is a type of bad boy and she doesn't get on with Wendy's son Michael. It all comes to a head when Rosemary see's her boyfriend and stepmother flirting and in a rage she stabs her stepmother to death and Michael witnesses it and tells his family and at the end as Rosemary is being taken away, she vows revenge on all of them.The third part takes place in 1979 when Rosie is five years old. Wendy has come to stay as her marriage is in trouble and she witnesses all that happens in the house. David in neglectful of his family, Janet, Rosie's mother is pregnant but loses the baby, Janet's father comes to stay and he has dementia. He and Rosie are very close and there is a hint that there might be sexual abuse going on. Janet's father gets worse and says out loud, he wishes he was dead. The next day, he is found murdered in his bed. Janet commits suicide and leaves a note saying it was her who killed her father but we later find out it was Rosie.At the end, both David and Wendy realise there was warning signs but they chose to ignore them because they were blinded to Rosemary's angelic appearance and the trauma she went through when she was younger. The programme is good because you are left wondering if she had the help sooner, would she have been a different person and the simple answer is you don't know.The actors were superb, particularly Charles Dance and Clare Holman who have to go from being in their 60's to early 40's and they pull it off convincingly. Emilia Fox is amazing in her role as a serial killer especially in the first episode where her eyes don't seen to show any emotion and she just stares coldly at people, with no visible expression on her face and she comes across as being a very scary person. In the second one, she managed to convincingly act as a teenager and I felt sympathy for her and understood what factors pushed her down the path she took.I have to make special mention of Tigerlily Hutchinson, who is a brilliant little actor especially at her age and there are some chilling moments, particularly when she is standing by her grandfather's bed, blood all over her and the knife in her hand showing no emotion.The episodes kept me glued to my seat even though I had a feeling that Rosemary was responsible and it was only when the flashbacks happened that it was confirmed.The directing, music and writing just adds to the fine quality of the drama and it has made me interested in reading the trilogy of books that the drama was based on. It is one of the best dramas I have ever seen on ITV.I recommend it to people who want something different from the run of the mill programmes that are on the TV at the moment.

I've never seen anything like this. The plot is muddled, pure acting talent is thrown to waste, and a lot of characters just don't fit in with the story. The first episode is enough to put you off the rest of this terrible mini series.It starts off in 1979, with a young girl finding her grandfather dead on the floor. Then it skips to the present day, with a stupid scene showing an old woman storming into a church and insulting the vicar. That in itself is one horrible section, and it never gets better.The second and third episodes are arguably better than the first, but, to be honest, none of it is any good.Don't waste your time. Give this one a miss.

In my view's, this is one of the best itv drama's for some time now. Emilia Fox plays such a wonderful, disturbed and black hearted killer in Fallen Angel. With Fallen Angel, it takes you back in time from when she gets caught kidnapping the little girl, to when she is a teenager and what drives her to this madness and when she in a five year old girl. There are some outstanding performances by Charles Dance who plays Rosmarie's (Emilia Fox) dad and Clare holman as Wendy who is Lucy's grandmother. If you had missed the drama, it will be available to by on the 19th of March on DVD. I strongly advise you that if you like drama's, you'll love this. View the trailer at http://www.fallenangel.itv.com.