Normally a whodunnit consists of a lot of good and interesting turns that you didn't expect. And when the wife and children die in a fire, with the husband still alive, people always assume that he was the one who did it. And that is when the rabbit hole opens up to a whole mess of shocking conclusions.
It doesn't happen here. Instead what it does is it closely re-examines the relationship between Tom (David Tennant) and Kate (Anna Madeley) and shows that they were not the perfect, happy couple that everyone thought. Gradually, as the series goes on, Tom becomes more and and more dislikable, to the point where he can make you absolutely hate him with just a look and a few simple words.
So when it's revealed that he actually did kill his wife and children by injecting them with sedatives and set the house on fire because Kate wanted to leave him - even though he routinely psychologically abused her in her fragile state - it's like... meh, yeah I know, why wouldn't he?
Tennant's ability to at first insnare some sympathy for him with his grief scenes and then loathing when he verbally abuses his mother, his wife and social worker is really amazing and that's what kept me going. But although it's an interesting family drama, as a crime mystery, it's pretty bland.
It doesn't happen here. Instead what it does is it closely re-examines the relationship between Tom (David Tennant) and Kate (Anna Madeley) and shows that they were not the perfect, happy couple that everyone thought. Gradually, as the series goes on, Tom becomes more and and more dislikable, to the point where he can make you absolutely hate him with just a look and a few simple words.
So when it's revealed that he actually did kill his wife and children by injecting them with sedatives and set the house on fire because Kate wanted to leave him - even though he routinely psychologically abused her in her fragile state - it's like... meh, yeah I know, why wouldn't he?
Tennant's ability to at first insnare some sympathy for him with his grief scenes and then loathing when he verbally abuses his mother, his wife and social worker is really amazing and that's what kept me going. But although it's an interesting family drama, as a crime mystery, it's pretty bland.