This starts off promising but the story just doesn't flow naturally. It's very contrived and is basically just a succession of people making one bad decision after another. We finally abandoned it a few minutes into episode five when there was one stupid decision too many. Archie Panjabi and Jack Davenport are wasted here, they deserve much better material. Can't really fault the production, the acting or even the detail of the writing, the problem is with the story which simply doesn't work. The basic premise might have made a single movie length drama by cutting out the stupidity, but as it stands, don't bother.
Review of Next of Kin
