Adapted from Graham Norton's novel by Karen Cogan and Dominic Treadwell-Collins (2 episodes each), for ITV. Like Nick Hornby, he felt he'd spent enough time with the characters not to want to do the adaptation, but liked the way his story had been opened out - "They've really elevated it".
Very enjoyable and immediately engaging characters in tale of bones discovered of possibly long-missing man. Perhaps has some influence from The Guard.
Conleth Hill is good as the sergeant (we've just seen him in Magpie Murders and unlikely though it seems, he was in Woody Allen's Whatever Works), Clinton Liberty his police sidekick (didn't quite understand the way his character behaves), Siobhan McSweeney the drinking mother, Brenda Fricker, Charlene McKenna as the wild one, Father Ted's Pauline McLynn (overdoing it) as gossip, Helen Behan (The Virtues, another great performance, as Abigail, the one with cancer), Amy Conroy, Pauline McLynn, Olwen Fouéré.
It has a warmth and feeling for people that most detective / crime shows don't.
That line from husband to wife - "we'll muddle along, won't we?" - I found strangely moving.
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