Not before time! Nicola Walker is pretty well known in NYC here, she was in a major Broadway hit with Mark Strong where her intensity went right through the roof and then some. While there were no Shakespeare-type asides with the audience in that play, they are quite common and welcome for their humor and thoughts-sharing on Broadway (eg in the Lehman Trilogy) and it's no surprise that Nicola Walker excels at them. Big plus there.
Other pluses in the first episode: (1) Silvie Furneaux as the sardonic daughter, reminiscent of Chloë Grace Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld, and Hermione Corfield; (2) James Silvie as the slightly disgruntled #2 in the team who classily concedes that Annika beat him to a key point; (3) Katie Leung and Ukweli Roach as the eager two others on the team, doing some funny gun-jumping; (4) Sardonic Boss Lady; (5) news-you-can-use about commercial fishing, whales, harpoons, and pigeons; (6) musical and easy-to-understand Scottish accents, and (7) trips hither and thither in boats and cars, in settings of real beauty.
So what's not to like here?! UK etc episode ratings on IMDB for S01 crept up from just north of 7.0 for E01 to just south of 9.0 for E06 suggesting this fresh series could become a regular. The self-absorbed grumps desperate to tell the rest of us why they switched off after 10 minutes are long gone.
Other pluses in the first episode: (1) Silvie Furneaux as the sardonic daughter, reminiscent of Chloë Grace Moretz, Hailee Steinfeld, and Hermione Corfield; (2) James Silvie as the slightly disgruntled #2 in the team who classily concedes that Annika beat him to a key point; (3) Katie Leung and Ukweli Roach as the eager two others on the team, doing some funny gun-jumping; (4) Sardonic Boss Lady; (5) news-you-can-use about commercial fishing, whales, harpoons, and pigeons; (6) musical and easy-to-understand Scottish accents, and (7) trips hither and thither in boats and cars, in settings of real beauty.
So what's not to like here?! UK etc episode ratings on IMDB for S01 crept up from just north of 7.0 for E01 to just south of 9.0 for E06 suggesting this fresh series could become a regular. The self-absorbed grumps desperate to tell the rest of us why they switched off after 10 minutes are long gone.
