Arrests you can’t
O comment,” says David Tennant. His character Dr Edgar Fallon is suspected of a terrible crime and these are the only words you’ll hear him utter for the first 20 minutes.
The police officer across from him, played by Lee Ingleby, lays out the crime to his suspect: “When a 14-year-old girl is found dead in the woods with...a shattered skull, held in place with a bag for life, then you can appreciate why we have to be so forensic.”
It’s immediately gripping, with the format unyielding – an interrogation room at a police station; suspect on one side of the table, cops on the other; mirrored one-way windows, cameras and tape recorders.
We have to play catch up to figure out what has happened so far, then make our minds up on the truth as the accused protest their innocence.
The 12 episodes of the series are listed on Netflix as four separate shows, with four different casts, directors and languages spoken.
Tennant is being grilled in the United Kingdom part, while there are also episodes in Spain, Germany and France.
In the British episodes, watch out for Katherine Kelly as a spiky police detective, with colleagues played by Line of Duty’s Rochenda Sandall and Marcella actor Nicholas Pinnock. Hayley Atwell also plays a suspect.
Billed as a ‘stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama’, expect intense mental conflict, unique stories and Line of Duty-style interrogation scenes that will leave you exhausted but desperate for more.
Thank goodness it’s all available to binge-watch.