Prismark10
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper who is approaching retirement is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing for so long.This is really an old fashioned 'whodunnit.' The building is a house converted into 5 flats and nearly all the residents are not very nice people at all, some with serious issues.It is rather slow going, there is a lot of psychological games and this shows via flashbacks to their behaviour towards the victim who was an obese female.The detective on his one last case before retirement is doggedly persistent and there is an air of a Gothic melodrama which the finale very much confirms as there are twists after twists as to who the culprit might be.
Bill Davis
This review is ABOUT the ending, but it doesn't reveal the ending.I just sat through the 4-part "What Remains," about the various characters in a small apartment house, and a retired detective's obsession with finding out what happened to an overweight girl whose body was found in the attic and whose disappearance had gone unnoticed for two years. I found it easily held my interest until the end, when it decided to have multiple endings. I'm always disappointed with British mysteries when they do that. I expect them to be mature enough to play out their mystery and denouement and say "that's it," but too often shows like this will lose faith in the resolution of the story, and think they have to throw in a twist or two or three at the end to give a shock to the sheeple. It just seems very immature and destroys any credibility the story had. Like the end of FATAL ATTRACTION, when the murderous woman is drowned in the bathtub, but that's not enough, so they have her jump out of the water ready to kill and the wife shoots her, because she suddenly has a gun and knows how to use it. It's a cheap gimmick you'd expect to find in crappy horror films, not a fine British drama. MAYDAY, from earlier this year, was another decent drama that twisted and was ultimately a complete cheat at the end.I would have rated this program an 8 or better if not for the ending.
g.f.farrelly
This is a, outstanding drama in which suspense is created by uncertainty about the true nature of the characters in a house. The unexplained death of a very overweight, shy, lonely female tenant in the house is the start of an endeavour to get to the truth by a detective who is retiring on the day her body is found. His dogged continuation of the investigation after his retirement seems partly based on his own shock at the loneliness and insignificance of his own life outside the workplace.The sense of alienation between neighbours and the themes of isolation, loneliness and secrecy simmer. The acting is uniformly outstanding and the house menacing. The ending is surprising, but believable and David Threlfall's performance is compelling throughout.
jane_concannon
I've watched the first 3 episodes (out of 4 I think) and am really enjoying this, as is my husband. It is an intriguing mystery about a young woman found dead in an attic many months after her death, and a cop's attempts to find out who did it and why nobody noticed she was missing for so long. For a TV drama, I'm finding this particularly gripping. It is very well directed and acted, particularly from the victim and the 17 year old son of the journalist. And its nice to see Russell Tovey's and Stephen Mackintosh's darker side - they are both very good too.I can't think what else to write in this tenth line other that to recommend that you give it a go on catch up or catch it next time.
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