Man alive this is bad... When the show came up in my TV listings I was excited having been a fan of Barry Foster's VdV. Within twenty minutes of the start of Marc Warren's version, my head was swimming with the sheer wretchedness of it all. Awful, clunky dialogue that thinks it's fast paced and witty but falls flat every time, creakingly wooden supporting actors for whom even am-dram would appear to be a bridge too far (especially Luke Allen-Gale and Darrell D'Silva as the boringly inevitable laconic pathologist), and a dullard, wannabe hip plot that spends too much time stating it's social awareness credentials but precious little engaging the viewer on any level whatsoever. Unutterable nonsense.
Review of Van der Valk
