Suspect (TV series)
A British adaptation of the Danish series Face to Face.
Suspect is a British crime drama television series adapted by Matt Baker from the Danish series Face to Face, created by Christoffer Boe. It premiered on 19 June 2022 on Channel 4. A second series, with writers Joy Wilkinson and David Allison replacing Baker, began broadcast on 17 July 2024.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Crime drama
- Based on
- Forhøret, Christoffer Boe
- Writer
- Matt Baker (series 1); Joy Wilkinson & David Allison (series 2)
- Director
- Dries Vos (series 1); Carolina Giammetta (series 2)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Series
- 2
- Episodes
- 16
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Did You Know?
- In series 1, Detective Danny Frater finds his daughter's body in the mortuary, presumably by suicide, and retraces her final days.
- In series 2, a hypnotherapist is visited by a man who says he wants to quit smoking; under hypnosis, he says he kills girls and she must stop him.
- Filming for the first series generated slight controversy as customers were turned away while filming at a Texaco in Vauxhall during the fuel crisis.
Reception
The first season of Suspect received mediocre reviews. The Guardian’s Rebecca Nicholson called it an “awfully cartoonish crime series” and gave it two stars. Nick Hilton of The Independent also handed out two stars, noting that DS Danny Frater “is hitting every cliché possible, from every genre of detective fiction.” Rachael Sigee of the i paper gave another two-star review, writing that the “wordy half-hour instalments offered a lot of script but didn’t seem to be saying very much or do enough to make you care about the characters.” On Metacritic, the series holds a score of 49, which falls under “Mixed or average reviews.”
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