This ITV adaptation of Peter James’s crime novel is full of immensely satisfying action – plus a star lead performance
John Simm is one of those actors who makes you think: what must that be like? What must it be like to be so good at the thing you do that, when you come along, everyone just relaxes? To be so good that everyone knows they are in safe hands, knows they are going to be shown something great, knows they won’t have to mess about trying to make a little look like a lot.
For viewers, he turns up and you just … believe him. You know he is an actor – you have seen him play loads of different parts, with the same face and everything – yet you accept him in the new without a moment’s hesitation. It is sorcery, really.
