Better
- TV Series
- 2023
- 59m
A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.A corrupt police detective has a painful moral awakening and decides to put right 20 years of wrongdoing.
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The only thing wrong with Better is that the BBC pitched it as "the new Happy Valley".
The only thing wrong with Better is that the BBC pitched it as "the new Happy Valley". And because they did, the show got a weird audience and critical reception.
Line of Duty is incredible, right? But if someone promised you Happy Valley and you sat down to watch Line of Duty, I don't think you'd like it much. That's what's happening here.
This isn't Line of Duty. It isn't Happy Valley. Better is in a category of its own, and it stands as tall as either of those shows do.
Leila Farzad is astonishing, like she is in everything. But this is a brilliantly written game of chess that has you emotionally invested in all the pieces on the board.
You haven't seen this character arc in a cop show, and you haven't seen this story in a drama before.
(Also, I don't know how you even begin to write a second season after that ending, but my god do I want to see it.)
Line of Duty is incredible, right? But if someone promised you Happy Valley and you sat down to watch Line of Duty, I don't think you'd like it much. That's what's happening here.
This isn't Line of Duty. It isn't Happy Valley. Better is in a category of its own, and it stands as tall as either of those shows do.
Leila Farzad is astonishing, like she is in everything. But this is a brilliantly written game of chess that has you emotionally invested in all the pieces on the board.
You haven't seen this character arc in a cop show, and you haven't seen this story in a drama before.
(Also, I don't know how you even begin to write a second season after that ending, but my god do I want to see it.)
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- Mar 9, 2023
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