Liverpool 1 (TV Series) Fresh Meat (1998) User Reviews

A pretty good start.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 13 May 2021]

DC Isobel de Pauli arrives in Liverpool from the Met, her arrival comes at the same time as a failed arrest, she gets a cool reception.

It's a good first episode, the case is intriguing enough, but here I wondered if this was where Mark and Samantha fell in love, she has a definite twinkle in the eye.

Being set in Liverpool there are a couple of actors and actresses I expected to see in this series, two of them appear here, including a young Stephen Graham, fans of his will enjoy seeing him in his pants.

A solid start, even of it was a little formulaic, the outcome not really coming as much of a surprise, although the sticky ending did.

Liverpool always gets a bad rap, it's a fabulous place.

A good start, 7/10..

Fresh Meat

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 22 April 2020]

The first episode of Liverpool 1 is very much shown through the eyes of new girl DC Pauli (Samantha Janus) who has moved from the Met in London to Liverpool.

Her new partner is the moody and troubled DC Callaghan (Mark Womack). He made a major arrest of Mikey Sullivan that has gone wrong because the arrest warrant had the wrong address. Callaghan's brother is a drug addict, the other is a priest.

The drug addict brother's life is in danger as he was the informant leading to the arrest of Mikey.

In the 1990s Spender did it better as the cop who had to go back to his native Newcastle. It had some quirkiness and humour.

The first episode had a good cast, Tom Georgeson, Stephen Graham. The writing was clunky and cliched.

Rather predictably Mikey is arrested and then left all alone with just Callaghan. Mikey runs and jumps over from his high rise flat. All the other police officers were elsewhere in the flat.

There are hints of a personal connection with the Callaghan and Sullivan families.

Some of the shots try too hard to convey moodiness. One was Callaghan standing in the rain under neon lighting.