TV Reviews - Crime Dramas

I have been watching a lot of crime dramas on TV recently and they are not all very straight forward.

What have I been watching? Well, there was DCI Banks on ITV. That was straight forward detective drama – very intense and sad episodes but fantastic viewing as always.  Then there is The Fall – not a patch on the first two seasons but it is still compelling viewing and am looking forward to seeing where it has to go and whether Paul Spector will be brought to justice.

So what are the confusing crime dramas? Well there is Paranoid on ITV – to me this is very confusing and annoying but yet am still going back every week to watch it.  The characters are very annoying especially the police woman Nina – she seems to be a typical women needing a man to feel like they are worth something.  Then there is Alec – he has a strange history with his mother – am wondering what the back story is here?

For me in this drama the acting seems very forced and I am not really into it. The storyline is all confusing as well – who has killed who? Who is on the run? Who is the Ghost detective?

And we move over to Germany, why do we do that? There is just confusion for me and I don’t like it, yet am still watching it every week. Why? Because I need to know how it turns out.

Then there is Level, which is also on ITV – another confusing drama.  What’s the story? Someone was murdered, the police are investigating it and one of the police is involved – not in the murder but she is being chased by the murderers. What is going on?

Then there is another policeman who seems to be involved, we don’t know what but he is and he and Nancy are running after each other, wary of each other. Corrupt police! There is a deadly knot here and someone is the murder of La Saux.

There are more questions and then answers in the Level. Who is Gunnar? What is his involvement in the case? What does Nancy’s dad have to do with it all? What will happen to Nancy?  It is very confusing crime drama but also compelling too.  I am still watching even though am confused because I need to know what happens.

That’s the problem with our brains – they are weird to need to do what happens.