Things go badly again as another victim is defaced Our investigators work on the activities of Ed Gein (my Wisconsin neighbor) to find what he did to people. Eventually, Buchan wanders into danger. We hear more and more about Chandler's childhood and the hell he paid. The conclusion has all the gore one could want and more. Once again, poor Chandler is seen as a failure because no one ever seems to go to trial.
3 Reviews
Sigh
candib131-988-9963747 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Maybe it's just me, but these have got to be the worst detectives I have ever seen. The DI (Detective Inspector) is supposed to mean that Chandler has special investigative skills above a normal officer however he never shows especially in this episode. He knows that Ed has been kidnapped by a spree killer that has murdered several individuals but he enters the warehouse, alone, and starts calling out Ed's name. SMH then to make matters worse he sees Ed tied up but doesn't think to secure the area or even wonder where this crazy killer is? I mean come on, who is writing this stuff? And why are the killers always more heavily armed and able to fight back and no one on the team is ever able to defend themselves in a fight? At least give the main character some sort of common sense and skill set aside from weird OCD habits and ticks that couldn't save anybody. *insert eye roll and heavy sigh*
Not the best episode
xbatgirl-300295 November 2021
Sadly, I have to agree with other reviewers that this show has really gone downhill. Obviously, the first season had the best writing overall, with a great deal of attention given to growing the characters and bringing them together as a team. The second season got stuck trying to be all about copycats again. I actually preferred when the third season had 3 unrelated cases. You could tell yourself that Joe's commissioner friend was throwing all the really oddball cases to the team, like they agreed on at the end of the second season (even though the writers actually just dropped that storyline).
I really am not a fan of the sudden conceit in this season that the supernatural is real. It's too much of a tone change to be enjoyable. I do usually love supernatural shows; they just can't change a realism based show so drastically this far along. I know we're supposed to believe something dark has come over the team, pulling them apart, and making them act poorly. But they seem to have instead really stagnated and gotten boring this season. Agree again that Joe's disorder and neurosis has gotten too far out of hand. He really only got the job through family contacts. He did grow in experience and confidence in the first series but was about it. Not only should he not be running unarmed, alone, into dark abandoned buildings, but he can't even seem to ask building maintenance to look into his office's plumbing issues. How does he deserve to be in charge? I also don't get why it's just this one small team working nights in a huge police station with no lights. I've worked nights - we do keep lights on.
Quick mention also to how the rest of the team has become so much less sympathetic as well, especially with Mansell's "prank" on Buchan. Kent's personality change seems too contrived. The writers seem to have been grasping at straws with Buchan. Is he really that shocked an old basement has mold? That's not exactly something dark or spooky. Riley's storyline has never moved past being the token female. Adding in the work of some spy, really was a step too far. I really don't know if they can pull this all together by the end of the last set of episodes.
I really am not a fan of the sudden conceit in this season that the supernatural is real. It's too much of a tone change to be enjoyable. I do usually love supernatural shows; they just can't change a realism based show so drastically this far along. I know we're supposed to believe something dark has come over the team, pulling them apart, and making them act poorly. But they seem to have instead really stagnated and gotten boring this season. Agree again that Joe's disorder and neurosis has gotten too far out of hand. He really only got the job through family contacts. He did grow in experience and confidence in the first series but was about it. Not only should he not be running unarmed, alone, into dark abandoned buildings, but he can't even seem to ask building maintenance to look into his office's plumbing issues. How does he deserve to be in charge? I also don't get why it's just this one small team working nights in a huge police station with no lights. I've worked nights - we do keep lights on.
Quick mention also to how the rest of the team has become so much less sympathetic as well, especially with Mansell's "prank" on Buchan. Kent's personality change seems too contrived. The writers seem to have been grasping at straws with Buchan. Is he really that shocked an old basement has mold? That's not exactly something dark or spooky. Riley's storyline has never moved past being the token female. Adding in the work of some spy, really was a step too far. I really don't know if they can pull this all together by the end of the last set of episodes.
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