![]() ![]() Frustratingly, then, it takes too many episodes for them to share substantial screen time with one another. Saddled with a plainly terrible boyfriend (Kerr Logan), Robin isn’t a great character per se - she’s too much of Cormoran’s Girl Friday for that - but her shifting relationship with her temp boss turned mentor is one of the series’ few bright spots, as is the respectfully flirty chemistry between the two leads. ![]() But the pang of “not enough” was most keen when it came to the scenes between Burke and his co-star Holliday Grainger, who faultlessly embodies the earnest, thrill-seeking Robin. Strike was “not enough”: not enough plot, not enough characterization, not enough suspense, not enough of its own DNA. The phrase that recurred in my mind as I watched C.B. Neither the investigators nor the suspects sustain interest, which makes the final installment, when Cormoran himself is accused of murder, especially uncompelling. But the cases feel so stretched out and the pacing so vexingly bovine - as if the writers and directors were told to fill a set number of minutes - that the mysteries repel emotional investment. A private detective in London relies on his military training to investigate complex cases. He seeks out Lula’s friends, the fashion designer Guy Somé and model Ciara Porter, and learns that Lula was looking for her biological family. At least the first two take place within the high-fashion glitterati and the back-stabbing literati of London, respectively - settings that the production designers practically eat up. Strike tells the police that the circumstances of Rochelles death merit further investigation but is dismissed. Concurrently, Robin goes undercover to investigate the blackmail of a Member of Parliament. It doesn’t help that the show’s trio of somewhat lurid whodunits are stubbornly uninvolving. Tom Burke jako Cormoran Strike, Holliday Grainger jako Robin Ellacott. 2020 Lethal White: Part 1 7.9 (771) Rate A mentally-disturbed young man wants Cormoran Strike to look into a murder he thinks he witnessed as a child. ![]()
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