![]() It evolves from intriguing to essential to utterly berserk, with a second series currently in production. ![]() Reluctantly paired with a technocratic, smart new partner (Joanna Vanderham) and desperate to cling on to newfound domestic bliss with a besotted new girlfriend (Angela Griffin), Lennox’s determination to follow his instincts brings him into conflict with a boss (Ken Stott) who would rather coast to retirement, while a depraved colleague (Jamie Sives) pursues another case with a debonair French cop (Réginal Kudiwu) – a mismatch providing welcome comic relief. Acting as a sort of prequel to Welsh’s novel of the same name, it follows DI Ray Lennox (Dougray Scott) as he wrestles unsuccessfully with childhood demons awoken when a teenage girl is kidnapped. ![]() ![]() Not so, Crime, which premiered in 2021 on BritBox and uses its accessible hook of Cop Chases Killer to dig into all sorts of associated issues of trauma, addiction, corruption and life on the margins. Irvine Welsh has not always been treated well by television: Channel 4’s Wedding Belles and ITV4’s Good Arrows were magnificent one-offs that were perhaps a little too bizarre to develop into full series. ![]()
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