Good idea lost in the noise

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

From Darkness shouts at you that you can have too much of a good thing and indicates that the interest in Scandi-drama is tailing off.From Darkness is so badly written I reckon whatever genre it was in, it would have failed. Anne-Marie Duff is a former police woman relocated to the Hebrides living in a little farm holding. When a body of a prostitute is found, she is drawn back to Manchester and work with DCI Hind (Johnny Harris) who she had an affair with years earlier. It looks like the crime might be linked to the one she investigated many years earlier.The series was certainly moody and cold. The Hebridean setting gives it an isolated feel especially in comparison to the inner city Manchester scenes.The problem was the series was poorly written, filled with clichés and characters which were stereotypes. I think the characters were so poorly sketched out that the actors had trouble filling the vacuum.Somewhere here was a 2 hour film that was stretched out. What we got was dull, dull, dull.

I feel as though I deserve a medal for having watched all four episodes of this undramatic drama only to be disappointed each week. As many other reviewers have already said the plot line was so bad that is was only saved from being the worse thing about the series by the awful writing. More angst than action which, unfortunately, appears to be the latest fad in most of the multi part dramas being forced upon us these days. Nostalgia overwhelms me as I remember the good old days when catch up and recordings did not exist and I would have watched and enjoyed Downton Abbey without putting myself through the misery of watching this series.

My biggest gripe of this series, as well as a number of other recent crime/police shows is the obsession of having a woman as the boss copper. I can't remember the last time a man was the top cop,I mean woman are constantly bemoaning that they can't get the top jobs but in TV land they have all of them in the police.OK whinge over. I have to say I basically enjoyed this series, thankfully they didn't drag it out to 6 or 8 episodes like some others I could mention. The main thing I didn't really understand was why it was important to bring Claire back from retirement after all those years, they didn't need to. Performances were very good from the two main leads and the Scottish scenery was as nice relief from Manchester, I mean who would willingly live there? Yes it could have been better, pace could have been faster certainly but at least the identity of the murderer wasn't obvious. It isn't awful like a lot of other reviews just not as good as we expect from Auntie Beeb.Didn't see the ending coming either.

Watched this mainly because I'll watch anything with scenes on the West Coast of Scotland. As far as I can tell it was filmed on the island of Luing, just to the south of Oban. Well, the ferry scene at the beginning of episode 2 was defiantly filmed there. Whether they film-makers were trying to be deliberately obscure or not is hard to tell, but they carefully avoided filming any kind of signs etc. keeping the viewer guessing the whole time :-)As for the programme itself, my wife wasn't interested in watching beyond the 1st episode....Really a bit slow with poor dialogue, the narrative floe was not very realistic at all and would not be the way any kind of normal people would interact.