SummaryCormoran Strike is a war veteran-turned-private detective in this series based on the novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It was released in the UK on BBC One under the name Strike.
SummaryCormoran Strike is a war veteran-turned-private detective in this series based on the novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It was released in the UK on BBC One under the name Strike.
This is superb Sunday night viewing, and has a highly crafted, sinister, intriguing and, at times, Satanic quality that should keep you enthralled. Strike: Troubled Blood, in other words, is the BBC at its best.
The characters could be stereotypes, but as imagined by Rowling, adapted and directed by Tom Edge and Sue Tully, and definitively portrayed by Burke and Grainger, they’re fully dimensional.
Strike is a slow-moving caper about a lovable curmudgeon that goes down particularly well on a bleak winter night at the end of another testing year. Forget boy wizards and their broomsticks. Strike: Troubled Blood delivered real escapism in magical quantities.
Troubled Blood’s epic runtime only accentuates the artifice of the pair [Cormoran and Robin] circling longingly, and when romantic developments do haltingly come, they too have the air of a throwback, namely the carefree English romcoms of the 90s. But it’s not enough to distract us from the thought that really, Strike is a Sunday-night detective like all the others.