Finished watching the last episode last night and what a bleak ending!
I though the whole cast were fantastic, Toby Jones can do little wrong for me, (Detectorists is just about my favourite comedy ever), and he played the hapless, hopeless, desperate and cowardly Verloc brilliantly. Stephen Graham was wonderful in the role of the sympathetic but hard-nosed Inspector Heat. Vicky McClure as the loyal, trusting Winnie was brilliant too. I don't care about who did what accent or whether it was accurate to Joseph Conrad's book, it just worked for me. Yes it's very dark and has an extremely bleak ending but I found this refreshing. There is no happy ending where the good guys win or a moral tale that leaves you feeling good about yourself! It's a gritty, realistic story of desperate people trying to survive and succeed in a terrible situation. Loved it.
I though the whole cast were fantastic, Toby Jones can do little wrong for me, (Detectorists is just about my favourite comedy ever), and he played the hapless, hopeless, desperate and cowardly Verloc brilliantly. Stephen Graham was wonderful in the role of the sympathetic but hard-nosed Inspector Heat. Vicky McClure as the loyal, trusting Winnie was brilliant too. I don't care about who did what accent or whether it was accurate to Joseph Conrad's book, it just worked for me. Yes it's very dark and has an extremely bleak ending but I found this refreshing. There is no happy ending where the good guys win or a moral tale that leaves you feeling good about yourself! It's a gritty, realistic story of desperate people trying to survive and succeed in a terrible situation. Loved it.