laduqesa

The shine-out star and eye candy was Calum Ewan Cameron for sure. He's a dodgy mix of good looks and bad boy with his tattoos and the haircut he gives himself partway through the film.

The film is not long so it doesn't, indeed can't, delve too deeply into motives and sexuality but it touches on hidden gay relationships and sudden personal tragedies.

We cannot be sure if Liam takes his revenge or not. The film is totally equivocal here. I'd like to think he didn't and, for me, the film seems to indicate that.

I'm glad I watched this film. It was well shot and I liked the close up camera shots in parts of it. It's a good way to while away ten minutes.

I just finished Season Two having seen the first season soon after it came out. I loved the fact that it was set in Porvoo a city I don't know well but passed through on the coach dozens of times on the way to Kotka.

The stories were positively Renaissance in their complexity and plot twists. Unfortunately though, it was pretty easy to guess who the baddie was in Season Two. And as I'm useless at whodunnits I'm surprised Detective Chief Inspector Hautalehto didn't realise who it was either.

Nonetheless, we had a team that wasn't clichéd and of varying competences who all served to get to the bottom of things.

This wasn't the best police procedural I've ever seen, not by a long way, but I enjoyed it.

I loved the setting and the idea of the murder being set in an insular, inward-looking community. However, the series was marred by somewhat wooden acting and implausibilities.

As always, we have to ignore the person the episodes were strongly signalling was the guilty one. It was completely obvious from episode three who we were meant to imagine had "dunnit". So we had to look elsewhere. I must admit I didn't guess who the real assassin was partly because it was such an improbable plot twist. There were other irreconcilable anomalies too. Martin was a thoroughly unpleasant character but why he should have been singled out for a beating by Connall is a mystery to me. We were meant to work out the reason why but I don't know what it was about (not a spoiler - this is the very first scene in the series).

Barry's involvement in passing on information didn't ring true either. He was such a wimp and jobsworth that I found it hard to believe in this facet of the story.

I watched it all. The final fifteen minutes were disappointing. The fate of Conall's dad is unknown but with court cases pending, would such extreme measures have been taken? And the decision to keep quiet about the conclusion of the case and leave an innocent reputation sullied didn't ring true either.

After reading back over the review, I've downgraded to a four from five stars.