As Sam gets deeper and deeper into the murder of her friend and it is connected to some young PhD students. She begins to press the issue, once again alienating her superiors. She breaks and enters at times. She throws out bait. It's another case of allowing people to have enough rope. She also puts her life in danger by confronting dangerous people all alone. She is often very foolish.
4 Reviews
Dumbest Smart person ever!
candib131-988-99637424 February 2020
Dr. Ryan is like a child - you tell them not to do something and she goes and does just that. How many times is she allowed to break the rules, basically messing up the evidence and witnesses, before she is let go? The only reason she's always in trouble is her lack of communicating events as soon as they happen, it's almost like she's saving things up. Which gets her framed and alienated from people she has to work with. This would be a pretty good show if she wised up and just did her job
She's at it again.
Sleepin_Dragon11 December 2019
Sam hasn't learned her lesson, if anything she's gotten worse, breaking and entering, challenging killers even. A pretty good conclusion, it's not been my favourite story, but it has some good elements. Burton has gone from strength to strength, although she spent no time in the lab, she was out and about crime fighting. I thought the efforts to discredit Sam worked very well, I thought the conclusion was a little daft.
Some very good scenes, I enjoyed the one where Burton has it out with former Mentor Leon Foreman, Bate always had a lot of charisma, a fine actor.
A good watch, but no classic. 7/10
Some very good scenes, I enjoyed the one where Burton has it out with former Mentor Leon Foreman, Bate always had a lot of charisma, a fine actor.
A good watch, but no classic. 7/10
Nothing 'brilliant' about this genius
emylye-139-32079327 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Sam Ryan is constantly described as-and acts like she thinks she is-superior in intellect to everyone around her in the first few seasons. Now she's at Cambridge, surrounded by like minds (one of the students says 'we're all exceptional here'), and if anything, the people are stupider... inserting themselves into the crime when they weren't even being considered at first? That's just plain dumb.
But never fear: Sam will become dimmer to meet them at their level: from vouching for her friend the victim's violent husband to putting her fingerprints everywhere she shouldn't be to sitting with her back to a sociopath child (age 21) who's murdered two people already... the next person on this show who calls her 'smart', 'right', or anything other than 'feckless half-wit' (shades of last episode, when she made the exact same mistakes)... loses credibility.
Oh, no. That's the writers.
We're sticking with it because we have to assume from its super-long run that it gets better. But we hope it's soon! In real life this moron of a doctor' would have been murdered long ago if not in this episode!
TL;DR: The acting is fine, even fun, but the writing stretches willing suspension of disbelief too far!
But never fear: Sam will become dimmer to meet them at their level: from vouching for her friend the victim's violent husband to putting her fingerprints everywhere she shouldn't be to sitting with her back to a sociopath child (age 21) who's murdered two people already... the next person on this show who calls her 'smart', 'right', or anything other than 'feckless half-wit' (shades of last episode, when she made the exact same mistakes)... loses credibility.
Oh, no. That's the writers.
We're sticking with it because we have to assume from its super-long run that it gets better. But we hope it's soon! In real life this moron of a doctor' would have been murdered long ago if not in this episode!
TL;DR: The acting is fine, even fun, but the writing stretches willing suspension of disbelief too far!
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