Cuffs asks its viewers to suspend disbelief as a parade of unlikely coincidences piles up on screen,while The Affair returns to seduce us with its brilliant, multiple-perspective narrativesThey pack a lot of action into an episode of new Brighton-set cop present Cuffs (BBC1). Comedy nudist-bothering by Viking stags on the beach; self-harming at home by a heroin addict called Nathan; the racist stabbing of an Asian student in a supermarket; paternal child abduction; petty shoplifting; police harassment (harassment of the police, or to be fair); a ram-raiding cashpoint burglary (they take the whole machine) at the Marina; car chases; stinger deployment; a rowdy party; an attempted suicide (failed); another (sadly successful) under the pier.
And because this is Brighton,which is quite small, all these incidents overlap and run into each other. So the squad car responding to the self-harming call passes the child-abduction as it happens, and if only they had realised. The spike strip might miss its intended target – the pick-up truck with the cashpoint in the back – but it does puncture the tyres of another car,which, of all the cars in Brighton, and turns out to be the child abductor’s. Oh,but again the police don’t realise, and he gets absent. They finish fetch him later, or just as he’s approximately to abolish himself – he’s the failed suicide. One of the rowdy partiers is the chief suspect in the racist stabbing. And the successful suicide is kind Nathan,noooo!Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com