Episode #2.4
- Episode aired Aug 31, 2023
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
168
YOUR RATING
Sarah races to Lizzie's aid and both face Brannon together in a grisly climax.Sarah races to Lizzie's aid and both face Brannon together in a grisly climax.Sarah races to Lizzie's aid and both face Brannon together in a grisly climax.
Photos
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Featured review
All Along I Watched The Tower
My wife and I actually watched this recently-aired second series of "The Tower," immediately after catching up with the happenings, and there were lots of them, from Series 1, so, sort of a mini-binge for us. Obviously we'd quite enjoyed the original story and were intrigued enough by the central characters as well as the general quality of the show, to dive in again.
The first thing to say here, is that the action this time doesn't take place on "The Tower" itself as it did previously. It's physically there in the background of the locale and mentally in the minds of certainly Lizzie Adama, but it doesn't feature as a prime locus in any way this time. Nevertheless, as if by magic all the four main characters from before are brought together, dedicated detective Sarah Collins, her estranged fellow detective, Steve Bradshaw Lizzie herself and her lover, Inspector Shaw, her married boss at the police station where she works.
As is almost typical I guess in procedurals like this, we get two cases for the price of one, the first a 25 year old cold-case concerning a teenage girl, missing presumed dead and the other a very live current case of an abusive thug who kills his partner and then absconds with their infant daughter.
Both cases come to resolution in the end without any crossover connections between them, for which I, for one, was grateful. Sure there were some hard-to-credit developments in both cases but by the end all four leads seem to come away in some way enhanced and their personal prospects improved by their experiences this time. Besides solving her old case, Sarah has won over her initially unsympathetic new boss and picked up a new girlfriend outside of work, Lizzie escapes with her life as she saves the little girl, Shaw has been appointed to head a new special task force and just about seems to have kept his marriage intact and Bradshaw, as well as helping save Lizzie, eventually agrees to the challenge of working under Shaw in his new team.
I'm not quite convinced that the acting quality is of a uniformly consistent standard, with Gemma Whelan working best as Sarah but the twin-narratives were strongly presented with many an intriguing plot-twist and cliff-hanging moment along the way.
Most importantly, I did, sometimes despite myself, start to become more interested in the four leads and their intertwining lives and work.
There seemed to be a couple of loose-ends and potential stories left hanging for the future, indicating a reasonable probability, I'd have thought, that there will be a third series to come.
If that's the case, then count me in, I'll watch it.
The first thing to say here, is that the action this time doesn't take place on "The Tower" itself as it did previously. It's physically there in the background of the locale and mentally in the minds of certainly Lizzie Adama, but it doesn't feature as a prime locus in any way this time. Nevertheless, as if by magic all the four main characters from before are brought together, dedicated detective Sarah Collins, her estranged fellow detective, Steve Bradshaw Lizzie herself and her lover, Inspector Shaw, her married boss at the police station where she works.
As is almost typical I guess in procedurals like this, we get two cases for the price of one, the first a 25 year old cold-case concerning a teenage girl, missing presumed dead and the other a very live current case of an abusive thug who kills his partner and then absconds with their infant daughter.
Both cases come to resolution in the end without any crossover connections between them, for which I, for one, was grateful. Sure there were some hard-to-credit developments in both cases but by the end all four leads seem to come away in some way enhanced and their personal prospects improved by their experiences this time. Besides solving her old case, Sarah has won over her initially unsympathetic new boss and picked up a new girlfriend outside of work, Lizzie escapes with her life as she saves the little girl, Shaw has been appointed to head a new special task force and just about seems to have kept his marriage intact and Bradshaw, as well as helping save Lizzie, eventually agrees to the challenge of working under Shaw in his new team.
I'm not quite convinced that the acting quality is of a uniformly consistent standard, with Gemma Whelan working best as Sarah but the twin-narratives were strongly presented with many an intriguing plot-twist and cliff-hanging moment along the way.
Most importantly, I did, sometimes despite myself, start to become more interested in the four leads and their intertwining lives and work.
There seemed to be a couple of loose-ends and potential stories left hanging for the future, indicating a reasonable probability, I'd have thought, that there will be a third series to come.
If that's the case, then count me in, I'll watch it.
helpful•10
- Lejink
- Sep 13, 2023
Details
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content