Wire in the Blood - The Complete First Season

Pros: thrilling and captivating

Cons: very dark subject matter and adult content (the scary kind, no nudity)

The Bottom Line: One very excellent show

Review: I initially discovered the BBC America channel because I would stop on it to listen for a minute to British accents. I always kind of liked those and I liked to be reminded of the two great months I spent in London. That is how I found the series ...

Pros: absorbing narratives, strong acting, bits of humor

Cons: Some gruesome images are unsettlingly implied, especially in the first episode.

The Bottom Line: Wire in the Blood's grim stories command attention. The British TV series lives up to its billing as "a top-notch psychological thriller."

Review: When Dr. Tony Hill takes some time off from teaching clinical psychology to help the police catch a serial killer, one of his university colleagues asks how long he's going to keep at "this Silence of the Lambs nonsense." The joke reflects the ...

Pros: Well written. Well acted. Intense and gripping.

Cons: Sadistic, sexually explicit and shocking.

The Bottom Line: If you can stomach the subject material, this is a gripping psychological thrill ride with plenty of shocks and surprises.

Review: I have never read the novel Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid, so I do not know if anything in it explains the title. However, if someone suggested to me that it meant transmit blood into your home via the cable wire, I would have to agree. ...