I guess it was well made. I mean the camera's were all focussed, and the actors, well they acted okay. Everyone learnt their lines and I didn't notice any glaring continuity errors or anything.
I read the book. As far as this TV series is concerned, that was probably a mistake. I enjoyed the book. Like, really enjoyed it. So I thought I would enjoy watching it on the telly box. Oh. My. Freaking. God.
Now, this Morrissey fella can act , no doubt. But he just wasn't Tom Thorne. And that wasn't Hendricks. For a start he was short. And Irish. Sorry, wait what? Irish?!? The big Mancunian pathologist is being portrayed as a short Irish bloke? What's the point of that? I'm not even going to bother going into the cast and characters of his colleagues. Some are a different gender, some are a different ethnicity. Why? Why do that?
Sigh.
So - onto the plot. The book is good. It is an intertwined and complex plot that keeps the reader entertained. The TV series is also complex and intertwined - just not anything like the book. Yup. Not a damn thing. The killer is different. The whole Calvert back story, so frequent in the Thorne novels, is, well, wrong. The most recent novel, a prequel to the first novel, fleshes out the Calvert business, and it does not match this TV series at all.
The TV series, if taken in isolation, is a good yarn. But it isn't Thorne: Sleepyhead. So, if like me, you read and enjoyed the book, then maybe don't watch this.
I've given it a 3/10 for a well made telly programme. It loses 7 points because it butchered the book. Don't like that? Don't really care.
I read the book. As far as this TV series is concerned, that was probably a mistake. I enjoyed the book. Like, really enjoyed it. So I thought I would enjoy watching it on the telly box. Oh. My. Freaking. God.
Now, this Morrissey fella can act , no doubt. But he just wasn't Tom Thorne. And that wasn't Hendricks. For a start he was short. And Irish. Sorry, wait what? Irish?!? The big Mancunian pathologist is being portrayed as a short Irish bloke? What's the point of that? I'm not even going to bother going into the cast and characters of his colleagues. Some are a different gender, some are a different ethnicity. Why? Why do that?
Sigh.
So - onto the plot. The book is good. It is an intertwined and complex plot that keeps the reader entertained. The TV series is also complex and intertwined - just not anything like the book. Yup. Not a damn thing. The killer is different. The whole Calvert back story, so frequent in the Thorne novels, is, well, wrong. The most recent novel, a prequel to the first novel, fleshes out the Calvert business, and it does not match this TV series at all.
The TV series, if taken in isolation, is a good yarn. But it isn't Thorne: Sleepyhead. So, if like me, you read and enjoyed the book, then maybe don't watch this.
I've given it a 3/10 for a well made telly programme. It loses 7 points because it butchered the book. Don't like that? Don't really care.