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It makes the case that that international bastion of human rights, the United Nations, promoter of “peace, dignity and equality”, whose members are protected by diplomatic immunity, is riddled with abuses of power, corruption and cover-ups. On BBC Two, Ben Steele’s superb, rigorous, feature-length documentary, The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN tells you everything you don’t want to be true. In this respect, Suspect deserves some credit for creative ambition, but the result is more “Nah!” than noir.Įmma Reilly, whose story was featured in The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN. Framed like this, it makes more sense: Nesbitt is the jaded gumshoe London is standing in for Los Angeles Richardson is the Jessica Rabbit of the mortuary slabs… etcetera. Presumably it’s on purpose, to lend that air of stylised Soho-noir. On top of this, things feel surreally over-mannered, giving some encounters the ambience of Tinder dates conducted via the medium of interpretive dance. As the episodes progress, it becomes “seedy nightlife” bingo: drugs, lap-dancing clubs, a bizarre segue into cryptocurrency. While Dead Christina appears in mystical visions, an intriguing theme about Danny being a bad father is left under-examined. Improbable clues and hunches fall like plot dominoes. Trouble is, the format makes everything too repetitive: Danny thunders up to different people, at different times, in different spaces, growling out practically the same questions and threats. I was expecting prestige telly-Cluedo: Richard E Grant in WC1 with the lead piping? Suspect also has an interesting structure: each 30 minute episode – two episodes nightly over four nights – comprises mainly of a double-hander between Danny and one of the suspects. Still, the cast has the wow factor, including Anne-Marie Duff as Danny’s ex, Richard E Grant as Christina’s shadowy mentor, Niamh Algar as her wife and Joely Richardson as the pathologist. Yes, here is Nesbitt delivering yet another Troubled Cop, this time with Brillo pad facial hair you could scrub a bath with. When a devastated Danny realises the Jane Doe is his estranged daughter, Christina (Imogen King), he suspects murder and strides out into the London night to prove it.

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Directed by Dries Vos, adapted by Matt Baker from the Danish series Forhøret, it stars Nesbitt as Danny, a cop first seen talking to a police pathologist about the suspected suicide lying between them on a mortuary table.

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Some TV critic-noir there, in keeping with the steamily nihilistic tone Channel 4’s new drama aims towards, albeit with patchy results.

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