This series started well for me, I assumed it would be a thriller about a woman trying to bring down the man who caused heartache and financial ruin for her family.
She sees him in Oxford after 15 years with a new persona, and watches as he snares a newly widowed author, one would hope she would warn the poor woman, but she went off on a tangent, and after a series of implausible events, he was brought down in an even more implausible finale.
Amongst all this farce we had a typical BBC pastiche of real life bad men, and the main female characters being all feminist and PC, a totally unnecessary and bizarre addition to the story.
The acting for the most part was a bit am dram, the wonderful Karl Johnson was a notable exception to that rule. I'm not sure what Derek Jacobi character was all about, he just disappeared in episode 4.
A wasted opportunity to tell a good story about scammers and the effect it has on lives.
Watch it if you've nothing else to do, but don't expect too much.
She sees him in Oxford after 15 years with a new persona, and watches as he snares a newly widowed author, one would hope she would warn the poor woman, but she went off on a tangent, and after a series of implausible events, he was brought down in an even more implausible finale.
Amongst all this farce we had a typical BBC pastiche of real life bad men, and the main female characters being all feminist and PC, a totally unnecessary and bizarre addition to the story.
The acting for the most part was a bit am dram, the wonderful Karl Johnson was a notable exception to that rule. I'm not sure what Derek Jacobi character was all about, he just disappeared in episode 4.
A wasted opportunity to tell a good story about scammers and the effect it has on lives.
Watch it if you've nothing else to do, but don't expect too much.