Disturbing yet enthralling

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Let me start by saying that I only watched the pilot for this series. And it was one of the worst pilots I have ever seen. How they managed to churn out more episodes is beyond me.The show has a number of flaws. Firstly the characters are really thin. On top of that the pilot features one of the most unimaginative cases I have ever seen. With so many excellent crime series out there, the writers can hardly expect us to find a light-bulb stuck in a body entertaining, intriguing or intelligent. As if that isn't enough, the characters hardly to any investigating. With the psychiatry angle, I was expecting maybe a little bit of profiling reminiscent of Criminal Minds, but apart from a few really weak questions here and there, nothing really happened.This show is neither good when it comes to psychiatric aspects or crime. All in all, I'm shocked that anyone finds it good. It's a tragedy.

OK, I gave it the benefit of the doubt for the first episode, but I had to switch episode 2 off after about 10 minutes. This show is really bad, mainly because the script writing is so lazy, and the actors just don't seem at all interested to be honest.As a couple of examples, early in the second episode, there is a scene set on the front porch, there are a multitude of knife implements around the main character (a great Canadian actor by the way that has done himself no favours appearing in this!) and the lead detective who is the main focus of 'cracked' replies to a comment concerning the knives saying he can only use one at a time...errrr no, unless multitasking really is beyond the realms of men, he can use two given he has two arms/hands! As an actor why wouldn't you challenge that statement in the script?! It's lazy script writing and acting in my opinion. So OK, that seems petty, how about a few scenes later when they find a car and investigate all around it, then exclaim surprise at finding a blood trail, clearly visible on the ground, as if it had not been noticed before taking the two steps away from the vehicle and the vehicle having been cordoned off by uniformed officers?! Errr, really?! OK, I agree these little observations seem petty, but these two issues happened within the first ten minutes and were not the only things.Overall, I disagree with other comments about the idea for the show, it's a stupid idea, but that is my personal opinion and I understand that writers need to be a bit more evolved around police TV series, because the gritty stuff like nypd blue and homicide:life on the street and the wire have set huge benchmarks that make it difficult to be just plain old police shows, but this is just plain lazy and the person that came up with this idea must be smiling from ear to ear, because he has probably been paid a fortune for five minutes of thought!! It's a bleak start to 2013 if this is the best that TV networks can sign up, especially after the tat that has preceded it like the mob doctor!! Can this show and put more effort in in the future!

I have now watched two episodes hoping the second would be an improvement on the first, opening night jitters I thought. Never like to judge on one episode alone. Sadly, the second wasn't much better. It's stale and has little new to it. A show can get by with a reliable formula but this particular show has 3 terribly bad points. It's very boring, the writing seems clichéd and lazy and the acting. There is no chemistry between the actors and the actress who portrays Danielle is particularly bad. They ensemble cast look like they are acting, nothing is natural. I struggle to find how this show found it's way to TV. At no point did CBC stop and say "This is awful, we have to change this". If this is the best that was on offer I really worry for the future of Canadian TV writing. The good points. It's polished(Although i do prefer gritty) and there is a good core idea there. It's been executed very badly though. And i won't be giving it a third chance to find out if it improves.

I'll be short, Well structured fantasy play on what rescources cops have in real life! Although not a serious drama and escapist by design it has some messages worth viewing! I enjoyed this given it reflects what I'd like to be able to do in my RL job! The tension of Law enforcement vs Community problems ie. Mental health issues. (the lack of rescources for Mental Health Treatement Worldwide)Rights for the Mentally Ill!Although not strictly realistic this show reflects a common experience by both caring and law enforcement agencies. For many years there has been a ping pong of this responsibility and this is the first time I've seen this translated into a real working model although fictitious .I'd recommend a viewing, even to support expanded utilization of mental health professionals within forensic deployments (my forensic byas)