The audience got an answer, in part because of a clue involving the recurring misspelling “definately”, but not all were satisfied.
There was a sense that creator Jed Mercurio’s bravura technique – the breathless pacing, the shocking cull of crucial characters, the lingering reveals and outrageous cliff-hangers – was no longer seamless. Mercurio had woven an increasingly compressed milieu, putting together a decade’s worth of crimes and suspects, but he couldn’t engineer a genuinely satisfying conclusion.
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Some of the best shows in the police genre (from left): The Wire, The Killing and Happy Valley.
That setback needn’t overly detract from