After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I so wanted to like this. The premise sounded promising. Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester are two of my favorite actors. The story started slowly but picked up speed toward the end. Then...there should be a special place in hell for writers who string you along for 6 hours and then give you nothing.

This starts off slow, but that gives you a chance to catch up between flashbacks and real time. Excellent story line and acting. Cant wait to get through the season. The back story of fighting for justice and being good at what you do puts Maya in a position to GO BIG but turns her life up side down. Don't let the reviews of people being upset by the different story lines talk you out of not watching. All of the story lines are points of view that really gets to the meat of the series. Undercover is an apt title but I feel an even better title would be Undercover Betrayal. I'll admit, I was wondering why the movie started as it did, but as the series continues, I understand.

Last decade or so, the UK has produced so many versatile and dramatic (mini-)series that one must unavoidably compare and choose between them - as time is limited and eyes must relax from time to time. Sometimes you tend to forget what you have seen already - due to several recurrent actors, often in similar roles of coppers or crooks - the trend that is usually characteristic to smaller nations, in Scandinavia in particular.Undercover sets in rather intensely, but then it scatters and wears away somehow, and some standpoints and attitudes are pointed out too often and too strongly, but then the thrill resumes and last two episodes form a real cat-and-mouse play, without becoming too "explosive". True, using flashbacks with a little effort to change the performers' outfit and looks for the period of 20 years brings along unnecessary confusions and disruptions, but all the major performances, however, are good at least, and Maya Cobbina QC by Sophie Okonedo deserves more praise and attention she has achieved so far.The ending scenes are a bit odd, and the very ending made me the inspiration that another season would be launched, although there is no hint of it so far. Anyway, I would presumably find time for follow-up, but it is okay to cap off here as well. Let the big echelons be more visible in other series... :)

This was one of the silliest, campiest (is that a word?), most confusing mini-series that has ever been aired. The premise of an undercover policeman who spies on his prosecutor wife was hard enough to swallow, but it at least held enough interest to see how it would develop. But ... oh Please! The guy on death row in America didn't kill the American mayor; no - it was the British drug dealing activist?! Oh Please! (When did Maya get licensed to argue in an American appeals court, much less the Supreme Court?) My hope for this mini-series was never very high, but it really was a huge disappointment. And the activist was not killed while incarcerated - he actually had a heart attack? I thought the whole show was about discovering who was involved in the cover-up of the activist's death while in police custody. If not that, then what exactly was being covered up? Why, then, was the drug addicted ex-undercover police officer (Abigail) murdered by an injected drug overdose? What story was the journalists chasing? I AM SO CONFUSED!!!!