Now in it's sixth season, Wire In The Blood is an extremely good British drama series starring Robson Green as a psychologist helping police profile serial killers. That said I was really looking forward to Season five. For the first time I was completely disappointed with every episode. I thought the series had simply run out of steam, the usual quality severely eroded. I resigned myself to an uninspiring sixth season. Low and behold I discovered an extended version on the internet, and discovered that about 23 minutes had been hacked out of the story-line. In every episode of season 5. Some types of movie to TV films can be edited for time to conform to the time slots allotted. But this was made for TV originally. There is no room for editing out scenes. Every scene is intrinsic to this typically highly charged and riveting series. So I am writing this for two reasons. One to let fans know the series hasn't imploded, and two, in the hopes that someone from the production company reads this and realizes they're cutting their own throats by permitting the butchery up to 46 minutes out of a two part episode and providing a solidly second rate product. I've since re-watched the unedited versions of some of season five, but even though they were better, it's hardly the same knowing whodunnit from the onset. Episode one of the sixth season has already aired - again butchered, and I refuse to watch it until I can get hold of what's being called the 'extended version', which is really the episode as it was meant to be viewed with nothing 'extended' about it. With any other show I'd have just stopped watching altogether. However Robson Green is an excellent charismatic actor portraying a complex character with his own set of problems to deal with, and the series 1 through 4 were so good I hate to see this travesty lead the series into cancellation. The nine out of ten vote reflects how good these are when you watch them the way they were initially intended.
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Great start to series 5.
Sleepin_Dragon5 October 2022
Tony is called in when an eleven year old girl is abducted from outside her home.
New series, new feel, new characters, big storyline. It's not the most cheerful story you'll come across, it's pretty sad and very bleak. This first episode from series for however is excellent.
You think you know what's going on, who's done what and why etc, but you'll need to watch it the whole way through to fully understand all that's happened. The outcome was one I hadn't contemplated, and seriously didn't expect.
I like the way that the characters are developing, Paula and Kevin are so much more interesting than they were in the earlier episodes, both are more involved.
Some awesome acting, Tony Maudsley was great, Adjoa Andoh gives a superb performance, she is awesome as Celeste.
It's dark and twisted, but very dramatic,
9/10.
New series, new feel, new characters, big storyline. It's not the most cheerful story you'll come across, it's pretty sad and very bleak. This first episode from series for however is excellent.
You think you know what's going on, who's done what and why etc, but you'll need to watch it the whole way through to fully understand all that's happened. The outcome was one I hadn't contemplated, and seriously didn't expect.
I like the way that the characters are developing, Paula and Kevin are so much more interesting than they were in the earlier episodes, both are more involved.
Some awesome acting, Tony Maudsley was great, Adjoa Andoh gives a superb performance, she is awesome as Celeste.
It's dark and twisted, but very dramatic,
9/10.
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