Strong performances again from the cast and great writing but a 2 and a half hour story is a bit long.
Unlike the previous story, we knew the perpetrators from the get-go so a different angle this time.
The humour is not so strong but the characters and their actions are powerful.
An explosive conclusion.
5 Reviews
The final act, and it's a nail biter.
Sleepin_Dragon30 June 2022
With Tina in Police custody, Fitz has to break her down to learn where Sean is, and who the next target is.
Great episode, I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish, it began with a bang, and ended with another.
I can't help wondering if this show helped to influence another great crime drama, Luther, it feels like the closest thing to it. It's perhaps more graphic in its violence than shows made today.
Coltrane really is at his best again, his scenes in the previous story with Dunbar were awesome, those with Susan Lynch here were equally as good. Lynch and Andrew Tiernan have been fantastic throughout, both of them have been about for so long, and always produce the goods.
I really did enjoy the moments of humour, so natural, people often joke when they're stressed or nervous, Fitz is clearly no different.
Loved it, 9/10.
Great episode, I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish, it began with a bang, and ended with another.
I can't help wondering if this show helped to influence another great crime drama, Luther, it feels like the closest thing to it. It's perhaps more graphic in its violence than shows made today.
Coltrane really is at his best again, his scenes in the previous story with Dunbar were awesome, those with Susan Lynch here were equally as good. Lynch and Andrew Tiernan have been fantastic throughout, both of them have been about for so long, and always produce the goods.
I really did enjoy the moments of humour, so natural, people often joke when they're stressed or nervous, Fitz is clearly no different.
Loved it, 9/10.
Psychotic Behaviour
ygwerin118 May 2022
Dr. Edward Fitzgerald's day job as a criminal psychologist working at a local college, has virtually been hanging by the most slender thread imaginable, because of his totally outrageous manner and attitude. But just how long can the college possibly be expected to put up with it, and does he have a cat in hells chance of changing his behaviour?
But work is the least of Fitz's woes or his trials and tribulations, he should consider his marriage to be the most important part of his life, but instead he prefers to gamble with it and his wife Barbara's affections.
Sean and Tina's relationship is put under the severest strain as the police desperately endeavour to untangle the mire of their criminal activity, before any other innocent person becomes caught up in their increasingly maniacal and demented activities.
But work is the least of Fitz's woes or his trials and tribulations, he should consider his marriage to be the most important part of his life, but instead he prefers to gamble with it and his wife Barbara's affections.
Sean and Tina's relationship is put under the severest strain as the police desperately endeavour to untangle the mire of their criminal activity, before any other innocent person becomes caught up in their increasingly maniacal and demented activities.
What a harrowing episode
frukuk7 April 2023
The whole 3 episode story is excellent and perfectly paced. But I wanted to comment on this particular episode because I found it particularly and surprisingly harrowing.
When Sean (played by Andrew Tiernan) is revealed (in the first episode) to have a severe stutter, I didn't appreciate just how essential it would prove to be. But as this (3rd and final) episode draws to a close, the stutter is used poetically, to emphasize just how difficult it can be to say I love you (and all that).
Fitz (played by Robbie Coltrane) is always wisecracking, but the final scenes involving Sean and his intended victim (and then also involving Fitz) surprised me by just how harrowing I found them. For all the dark humour, there is also real peril and real darkness here.
When Sean (played by Andrew Tiernan) is revealed (in the first episode) to have a severe stutter, I didn't appreciate just how essential it would prove to be. But as this (3rd and final) episode draws to a close, the stutter is used poetically, to emphasize just how difficult it can be to say I love you (and all that).
Fitz (played by Robbie Coltrane) is always wisecracking, but the final scenes involving Sean and his intended victim (and then also involving Fitz) surprised me by just how harrowing I found them. For all the dark humour, there is also real peril and real darkness here.
To Say I Love You: Part 3
Prismark1012 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
It promises to be an explosive finale. Tina is in custody but says nothing during questioning.
Meanwhile Sean is getting even more unhinged as he is without Tina. He cannot bear being apart from her.
He desperately tries to trace Tina's parents. He wants to go out in a blaze of glory. That means taking down Tina's blind sister with him.
It is up to Fitz to be a hero as he confronts Sean. Maybe he will bluff or just tell the truth. Unbeknown to both of them it is a race against the clock.
A tense final episode but I was confused about the timelines. In the first episode it seems Tina and Sean met at a Karaoke contest.
There was no interaction between Sean and Tina's family previously. The viewer just sensed that Tina was unhappy with her sister when she went to her parents house in the first episode.
There was a nice bit of deduction as Fitz knew exactly how his wife Judith was seduced by the therapist.
Meanwhile Sean is getting even more unhinged as he is without Tina. He cannot bear being apart from her.
He desperately tries to trace Tina's parents. He wants to go out in a blaze of glory. That means taking down Tina's blind sister with him.
It is up to Fitz to be a hero as he confronts Sean. Maybe he will bluff or just tell the truth. Unbeknown to both of them it is a race against the clock.
A tense final episode but I was confused about the timelines. In the first episode it seems Tina and Sean met at a Karaoke contest.
There was no interaction between Sean and Tina's family previously. The viewer just sensed that Tina was unhappy with her sister when she went to her parents house in the first episode.
There was a nice bit of deduction as Fitz knew exactly how his wife Judith was seduced by the therapist.
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