The Tower (TV Series) Episode #2.4 (2023) User Reviews

A very exciting conclusion.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 5 September 2023]

Matthew Brannon breaks into Lizzie's house along with Skye, Sarah calculates what he's planning, but is she in time to save her?

It's a really exciting, dramatic and pacey episode, this second series is a cut above the first, and this final episode is the best of the lot, hopefully we'll get a third installment. The two threads are satisfyingly concluded, Tania's story and Matthew Brannon's.

That scene in Lizzie's house was a very exciting moment, very Line of Duty.

Elaine has definitely come good, loathsome initially, she's definitely turned a corner.

Now, I have one issue, PC Adama, she is officially the stupidest cop ever to appear on TV, she makes Reg Hollis look like Jim Taggart, she interjected when Colin was being followed, and now she steps into that house, how does she manage to cross a road?

Gemma Whelan really does deliver here, very, very well acted all round.

8/10.

All Along I Watched The Tower

[Lejink · 7/10 · 13 September 2023]

My wife and I actually watched this recently-aired second series of "The Tower," immediately after catching up with the happenings, and there were lots of them, from Series 1, so, sort of a mini-binge for us. Obviously we'd quite enjoyed the original story and were intrigued enough by the central characters as well as the general quality of the show, to dive in again.

The first thing to say here, is that the action this time doesn't take place on "The Tower" itself as it did previously. It's physically there in the background of the locale and mentally in the minds of certainly Lizzie Adama, but it doesn't feature as a prime locus in any way this time. Nevertheless, as if by magic all the four main characters from before are brought together, dedicated detective Sarah Collins, her estranged fellow detective, Steve Bradshaw Lizzie herself and her lover, Inspector Shaw, her married boss at the police station where she works.

As is almost typical I guess in procedurals like this, we get two cases for the price of one, the first a 25 year old cold-case concerning a teenage girl, missing presumed dead and the other a very live current case of an abusive thug who kills his partner and then absconds with their infant daughter.

Both cases come to resolution in the end without any crossover connections between them, for which I, for one, was grateful. Sure there were some hard-to-credit developments in both cases but by the end all four leads seem to come away in some way enhanced and their personal prospects improved by their experiences this time. Besides solving her old case, Sarah has won over her initially unsympathetic new boss and picked up a new girlfriend outside of work, Lizzie escapes with her life as she saves the little girl, Shaw has been appointed to head a new special task force and just about seems to have kept his marriage intact and Bradshaw, as well as helping save Lizzie, eventually agrees to the challenge of working under Shaw in his new team.

I'm not quite convinced that the acting quality is of a uniformly consistent standard, with Gemma Whelan working best as Sarah but the twin-narratives were strongly presented with many an intriguing plot-twist and cliff-hanging moment along the way.

Most importantly, I did, sometimes despite myself, start to become more interested in the four leads and their intertwining lives and work.

There seemed to be a couple of loose-ends and potential stories left hanging for the future, indicating a reasonable probability, I'd have thought, that there will be a third series to come.

If that's the case, then count me in, I'll watch it.

Episode 4

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 3 September 2023]

Throughout the second series everyone has said that PC Lizzie Adama is inexperienced. She does not follow orders.

It was intimated by DS Sarah Collins that everyone holds the inexperience card for her as an excuse. It might be she is just not cut out to be a copper.

This is demonstrated in the final episode. Adama rushes into her house where Matthew Brannon is lying in wait. She nearly ends up being killed. Even though Collins told her to run away and that armed police were on their way.

Meanwhile Tania's dead body has been found and music teacher Adrian Stephenson is now the main suspect. Only no one has bothered to find out from the pathologist to find out how she died first and what injuries she received.

They go straight in and arrest Stephenson without game plan. Meanwhile Stephenson has concocted false alibis.

It is not poor writing, it is clumsily handled drama. All for shock twist and turns. There were no surprises at the end but a set up for the third series wasl already in play.