Another
episode that’s pretty all right. Things
happen, new information is discovered, and it’s probably the most Jodie
Whittaker has had to do in at least half a season. If they can keep it up for a couple more
episodes, series 2 might shape up to be fairly decent.
An
explosive new witness comes forward for the defense in the trial, and their
testimony leads to a tense witness-stand scene featuring another character as
well. Revelations made there send out
ripples in more ways than one, and the Latimer family is rocked by what
happens. Hardy and Ellie take a new
approach to try and get the answers they need in Sandbrook.
It’s hard
to get into too much about the trial without spoilers, but overall, it’s not
too bad. I still find Sharon’s
browbeating ridiculous (it feels like she does way too much positing when she’s
supposed to be questioning, and everyone – Jocelyn included – is always left
just sputtering at it,) but there’s some good dramatic headway here. It gets into pretty sensitive territory with
the first witness, and while you can clearly see the dominoes that fell into
place after Sharon is finished with the second witness on the stand, we get a
bit more of a sense of her aims that are slightly less “agent of chaos” than
what we’ve seen before.
Furthermore,
what happens with these witnesses has effects on multiple characters, and
situations that have been spinning their wheels for most of the season start
moving, for better or worse. In
particular, the Latimers are hit hard, and Whittaker finally has an opportunity
for some heavy spotlight scenes that demonstrate how much Beth is reeling from
this. After the last few episodes being
so light on Beth, it’s nice to see her get a new chance to stretch her acting
muscles a bit.
The
Sandbrook side is decent as well. Ellie
and Hardy do a good job working together in this episode, finding new angles
from which to approach various persons of interest. We obviously don’t yet know for sure who the
killer was in this case, but we do get a really concrete piece of information
here, and a major clue is discovered that will likely fuel the direction of the
investigation as they move toward the end of the season.
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