UST has powered some great movies and TV, but series 4 lays it on thick. In ep 4 Corm gives Robin a hug and accidental brush kiss, with wonderful acting. Series 4 is all about unresolved sexual tension (UST), impressively maintained through 4 hours. Just finished watching (rewatched episode 4 as I'd missed some labyrinthine elements of ep 3). ![]() That’s not to say it isn’t enjoyable, because it is, but only up to a point.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Great acting, striking melodrama, with lots of UST But so far, even though it really does rely on those will-they-won’t-they love stories that seem to proliferate PI shows, there never seems to be anything new or fresh here. ![]() Whether they can string this story out for four episodes is an interesting question. A cover-up by the Chiswells? Something more? And, soon enough, connections are made – the brothers used to work on the Chiswell estate, and when they go digging (literally) they do find the body of a young girl (wouldn’t you know it). ![]() So Strike takes on both cases, eager to find out why and how they’re connected. There waiting for her is the dysfunctional Chiswell family – black sheep Rafe, put-upon daughter Izzy and young wife Kinvara. Soon, Robin – who’s still battling severe PTSD – is going undercover at the House Of Commons to see what she can find out. Some digging reveals that this man is connected via his brother Jimmy to a radical far-left organisation.Īnd then another strand – an MP named Jasper Chiswell (Robert Glenister) wants to hire Strike because the Knight brothers and their organisation, and a rival MP, are blackmailing him, but he refuses to tell Strike why. Is he telling the truth? Is he deluded and psychotic? Is he telling the truth? After he runs off into the night, Cormoran – somewhat hastily perhaps – feels inclined to help this young, lost, mentally disturbed man. ![]() A distressed, disturbed man with blood on his hands (literally) – Billy Knight – confronts Strike and Robin at the office, speaking in paranoid whispers about the murder of a young girl during his youth. So what’s changed since we last checked in with these two? Well, there’s a new secretary at the agency (who doesn’t last long) and Cormoran has a new girlfriend, a terrifically sassy woman by the name of Lorelei (Natalie Gumede), which doesn’t help Robin’s complicated feelings towards her boss.Īnd, of course, there’s a new case. This is the axis on which this new four-part story continues to swivel on (yes, four-part – an increase on previous years), and my, doesn’t it just – for every segment of procedural action, there are flashbacks to Robin’s honeymoon (which signifies the moment that she knew she had made a mistake in marrying Matthew… although, to be fair, you could argue she had made up her mind way before then) and longing looks towards Cormoran for some reciprocation of feeling. We see her in this opening episode dealing with the consequences of all of those decisions – marriage to Matthew, the PTSD, and her feelings for Cormoran. She had also been through quite a traumatic case, which caused her PTSD to flare up again. This fourth instalment of Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series (yes, it’s JK Rowling in disguise) is a welcome tonic, not least because we’re getting some actual new primetime drama on our main channels once again.Īnd it’s also good news because, despite its flaws and cliches, you just can’t beat settling down on a Sunday night to watch an easy-going, male-female detective drama like Strike.Īt the end of the two-part Career Of Evil last year, Robin (Holliday Grainger) was about to get married to rubbish Matthew, even though there was a will-they-won’t-they scenario going on with Cormoran.
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