First, the strong points. Beautiful scenic vistas and an effective soundtrack for the most part. Unfortunately the music appears sometimes where there's no need for music. Not too distracting, but I noticed it. A very beautiful woman playing the role of one of the cast member's daughter helps make the show watchable at parts. The stories are good, but sadly the writing and directing are woefully lacking and unbelievable. It's insulting to portray the Irish as so callous, stupid and foolish. The lead actor wants to do the right thing, but he's just a bit sanctimonious and really not a very good cop. But the thing that's really irritating is how indifferent the older men are to heinous and despicable. Oh, it was a long time ago. She was just a foreign tart. The baby wasn't born dead. They just didn't care one bit about how nasty and reprehensible what they did was. Just made light of it and shrugged it off. Like it's no big deal no sweep crimes under the rug and let people get away with anything they want to. It's ridiculous beyond belief. The high rating here makes no sense. Just because it looks good and deals with good scenarios, the execution of each episode just gets worse and worse until the show is wallowing in it's own clueless mediocrity. I suppose the landscape shots I mentioned earlier are worth a star, the loveliness of the woman I mentioned earlier is worth half a star, and the stories themself are worth half a star although the execution of said stories are bewildering and mind numbingly absurd.
Review of Single-Handed
