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I watched Identity last night. It was ok, but I expected it to be a bit more...gripping, I suppose. I'll watch the next one to see if it gets any better but this one wasn't really anything special
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I thought it was at best mediocre. Which meant I was pleasantly surprised, since I was expecting it to be dreadful.
It certainly nailed all the cliche points. Main copper who is a 'maverick' with 'a past'. Strong female leader, so the drama can go 'Look! How right on and unprejudiced we are!' And then, strong-female-leader does nothing all episode, except make goo-goo eyes at maverick-cop and get pushed over by the perp, since she's wearing clothes unsuited to pursuit.
And then there's the two junior officers who have personalities at either end of the spectrum so we can have OMG!conflict! Alas, neither personality came across as real. The young guy was so liberal and tolerant as to seem naive. The black guy was so conservative and intolerant as to seem a bigot.
Other thing I noted? Holly Aird's character was being given all the expositiony lines, to the extent that she might as well have turned to look straight into camera and spoken them all directly to us. The 'Cripes! It's so easy for bad people to steal your identity!' stuff palled after about three minutes. And all the character stories within the episode that had the potential for being genuinely interesting were glossed over, in order to focus on the mechanisms of identity theft.
Ah well. Keeley looked pretty. She even makes clunky dialogue sound natural. *loves on Keeley*
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