Touching Evil [VHS]

Touching Evil [VHS]
by Julian Jarrold, Marc Munden

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Actor: Claudie Blakley, Marcia Tucker, Philip Wright, Sean Gilder, Valerie Lush
Director: Julian Jarrold, Marc Munden
Producer: Charles Hubbard
Producer: Jane Featherstone
Producer: Michele Buck
Producer: Rebecca Eaton
Writer: Paul Abbott
Writer: Russell T. Davies
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 360 minutes
Release Date: 2001-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Wgbh Boston
Studio: Wgbh Boston

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Movie Review: believable
Summary: 5 Stars

this british crime drama relies more on great acting skills and really good writing, than "special effects/superfluous gore". this series is the thinking man's law and order. each story is two parts long, and not every loose end is conveniently wrapped up by the end of the story. watching the series was like looking through a window into a snippet from real life. people don't always fit into neat boxes. the dialogue and storylines were very believable. this is what i liked about this crime series.

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Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.

Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London's Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England's most dangerous criminals-a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.

This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett

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