A strong emotional and powerful episode as things come to a conclusion.
Great acting, strong script with top quality laughter and drama as always.
This was probably the peak for the show.
A brilliant watch.
2 Reviews
Don't forget your cape!
xmasdaybaby196612 February 2021
I miss early Cracker, this just takes it too dark
Archie-Leech17 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
What's not to love about Cracker - wring me out every single minute so I can soak in it. And rewatch it.
But, there's always been a huge stumbling block for me, and it comes towards the end of Season 2.
In season 1 and half of 2 the fine weighing between the darkness and the searing dialogue were balanced beautifully.
Combined with some of the best acting talent (give whoever did the series casting a raise) and it just felt perfectly right.
Some of the best UK crime drama filmed. Period.
But here's where I start to feel weird: Towards the end of the Season 2 Penhaligon was raped, not by the chief suspect but by a copycat. Being frank here, the logic train and editing so the audience can be sign posted on this plot point's some of the worst I've seen.
Did the chief suspect rape her or not?
No, apparently, he didn't apply water afterwards so that rules him out.
Erm. Right then.
Despite being offered this solution, You may be like me, trying to make sense of it all, before too long Penhaligon starts to accuse Jimmy Beck of raping her.
Reasoning? Based on his... aftershave.
You're probably still wondering what's going on a full one episode on - and whether this is all just a blackmail sub plot or a dream. It's just confusing to watch. Surely this can't be where the show is going.
This is exactly where the show is going.
And from there unfurls greater and greater darkness - which is to be expected - when you have two people officers in the same squad: one whom has raped the other.
Rather than loving the interdepartmental friction and the banter, now you're left feeling tense and awkward, it tears a seismic hole in the tone of the show.
So all of that leads to the Brotherly Love Part 3 episode A climax that sees Jimmy Beck admitting to raping Penhaligon, which to any TV viewer out there, just doesn't track to the character.
It point blank feels unbelievable.
Then to cap it off JB throws himself off a high-rise with a murder / suicide.
Jesus.
The show has got so dark, the banter and the interplay no longer really works as well because you're just left wanting your own crisis counselor to get through the show.
And sadly it never really recovers from there.
As said, amazing actors, seering dialogue, but the show makes a dramatic change mid way through that it never really recovers from.
But, there's always been a huge stumbling block for me, and it comes towards the end of Season 2.
In season 1 and half of 2 the fine weighing between the darkness and the searing dialogue were balanced beautifully.
Combined with some of the best acting talent (give whoever did the series casting a raise) and it just felt perfectly right.
Some of the best UK crime drama filmed. Period.
But here's where I start to feel weird: Towards the end of the Season 2 Penhaligon was raped, not by the chief suspect but by a copycat. Being frank here, the logic train and editing so the audience can be sign posted on this plot point's some of the worst I've seen.
Did the chief suspect rape her or not?
No, apparently, he didn't apply water afterwards so that rules him out.
Erm. Right then.
Despite being offered this solution, You may be like me, trying to make sense of it all, before too long Penhaligon starts to accuse Jimmy Beck of raping her.
Reasoning? Based on his... aftershave.
You're probably still wondering what's going on a full one episode on - and whether this is all just a blackmail sub plot or a dream. It's just confusing to watch. Surely this can't be where the show is going.
This is exactly where the show is going.
And from there unfurls greater and greater darkness - which is to be expected - when you have two people officers in the same squad: one whom has raped the other.
Rather than loving the interdepartmental friction and the banter, now you're left feeling tense and awkward, it tears a seismic hole in the tone of the show.
So all of that leads to the Brotherly Love Part 3 episode A climax that sees Jimmy Beck admitting to raping Penhaligon, which to any TV viewer out there, just doesn't track to the character.
It point blank feels unbelievable.
Then to cap it off JB throws himself off a high-rise with a murder / suicide.
Jesus.
The show has got so dark, the banter and the interplay no longer really works as well because you're just left wanting your own crisis counselor to get through the show.
And sadly it never really recovers from there.
As said, amazing actors, seering dialogue, but the show makes a dramatic change mid way through that it never really recovers from.
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