The Chestnut Man (2021– )
5/10
Just "OK", due to poorly written police activities
1 October 2021
The first half of this "murder mystery" is really good. It lays out a set of horrific, ongoing crimes, that set up the major police investigation in the second half. My problem with the second half is it is loaded up with one stupid (police-related) thing, after another. Put simply, police officers going into potentially dangerous settings, all by themselves, often without having any bothered to tell anyone else where they were going. Even dumber, creeping into buildings where their might be dangerous suspects (again, alone), as though they are trying to be cautious, but then, yelling "HELLO", "IS ANYBODY HERE?". I. E. Basically ensuring that if their suspect is there, they've ensured that person knows they are there, and exactly where (the police officer) is.

In short, the police-related procedures seem to have been written by a 10-year old. An officer making that kind of "mistake" once might be acceptable, but when the whole plot is driven by people continuously doing those same things repeatedly, it just ruins the whole story. I sat through the final half of the episodes, just to see how it played out, but it was a frustrating (as in "unbelievable") finish to what had started out as something really interesting.
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