Ignore the anti-climactic intro to this police drama. Its tale of a dodgy detective who wants to change really starts to blossom as it goes on
I feel a little sorry for Better (BBC One). It’s a police show set in West Yorkshire arriving hot on the heels of Happy Valley, the best police show set in West Yorkshire ever to have blessed our screens. It’s a bent copper show coming slightly cooler on the heels of The Responder, also a bent copper show and one of last year’s best dramas. Through no fault of its own, it is destined to suffer under the weight of comparison.
I Hate Suzie’s Leila Farzad stars as DI Lou Slack, a corrupt detective in Leeds who has spent the best part of two decades taking money from the local drug baron Col McHugh (a menacing Andrew Buchan). When her son, Owen, suffers a near-fatal illness, Lou’s conscience begins to swing into action, and she questions her place at the heart of Col’s business.
