marinella-mermaid We started watching this mainly because of Anne-Marie Duff and Johnny Harris, and episode 1 was good enough so I stuck with it (but not my husband). That's 4 - or 3 to be fair - hours I'll never get back.Each episode kept pointing to a poor finale, but as I work in drama I really wanted it to be better than it turned out to be.Main problems were: Underdeveloped characters, except maybe for Hinds (Johnny Harris).Pointless plot diversion: Megan, Claire's stepdaughter, was she there just to be the diverting red herring at the end? The woman police chief, should get an award for most wooden acting since Pinocchio.Rushed conclusion in episode 4, totally unbelievable and clichéd characters like the original killer (why didn't he run her over??) and the vengeful victim.If the BBC want to emulate Scandinavian dramas they should import their scriptwriters and directors.

Tom Livingstone Watching this was painful. I only watched it all in the hope that the ending would make up for the rest of the slow moving drivel.The main characters did not engage the viewer in any way. I didn't really care what happened to them! I felt no chemistry whatsoever between the two main leads and yet we're supposed to believe that they are suppressing a love so great that they might give up their far more attractive current partners to be together!The character Claire Church kept running away, coming back, running away. Only a few weeks ago I drove to the Isle of Skye and back and it's not a journey you take on lightly, even by train! Supposedly an intelligent ex detective, what exactly was she thinking when she behaved as she did at the wedding they crashed? Deliberately getting plastered, making a ridiculous scene and coming on to her DCI colleague and ex lover. I'm sure the writer could have achieved a similar plot mechanism without contriving unrealistically that experienced DCIs may behave in such a dumb and ill-considered way.The ending was equally pathetic and it's left the door open for a follow up. No witnesses to the shooting, so Church could claim self-defence and act out even more angst over her actions. Also DCI John Hind was still breathing, which in a similar manner unfortunately, might mean that someone may consider there's still life in this nonsense!If so, I won't be investing any more time in this. I'm out.

paul-quinn27 Yet another British triumph of style over substance, with long, agonising looks into the distance and police procedural work that makes no sense at all - e.g. a civilian "consultant" trapising around crime scenes unescorted and unsupervised. It's focal point is the now standard protagonist-with-painful-past who has "history" with a former colleague. Wow, how original.It's the pacing that did it for me and like that dire series a couple of years ago with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan (so poor that I can't be bothered trying to remember the name), it seems to take forever for the characters to react or respond to any on screen stimuli, even when in mortal danger. Instead we are treated to extreme close- ups of their angst-ridden faces - example ***SPOILER*** the main character breaks into a suspects house, quickly finds irrefutable evidence, then stares at it vacantly for what seems like forever. In REAL life, she would have GTF out of there and called the cavalry.Avoid.

Melanie Morales So disappointing. As someone who will watch any TV drama (1 part, 2 part, or a whole series) that has a loose mystery/crime plot, I couldn't believe how painful it was to watch "From Darkness".The main things that GREATLY annoyed me were:The two main characters are UNABLE to have a normal conversation without whining and complaining like two hormonal teenagers - making EVERYTHING personal and incapable of doing one's job.We guess we want to find out what TERRIBLE thing happened to her or what she was forced to do/witness back in Manchester in her policing days. We eventually find out it was that she got pregnant by a married man and has an abortion. That is it. I know, it must have been hard, but she made it harder by not talking to him about it. A LOT of people must go through this and don't move to a tiny island in Scotland without internet! Originally it gave the impression that it was something traumatising possibly related to the murders...WHAT is with the TERRIBLE crime of her taking ANTIDEPRESSANTS??? Norrie seems to think her taking these tablets was a gross misplacement of trust, and that he clearly wasn't making her happy by himself. He forced her into agreeing to not take antidepressants for him! This is a serious misrepresentation of people suffering with depression. Totally unacceptable.Interminable shots of Claire looking moody.