trailer break: ‘Edge of Darkness’

The original series is fascinating, and it makes me want to see other shows and movies with the late Bob Peck who is just great. I was so disappointed when I saw that Mel Gibson was starring in the movie version.

Great. Another story where the damage to a woman drives the man's motivations.

Most jarring for me is how they have replaced Bob Peck's stoic Northerner with hyper-emotional Mel (he'll do the Mel revenge-roar at some point in the film, I just know it). His slower, subtler greiving process is highlight in the original. Should have got Harrison Ford.

To the Women in Fridges motivation: It's a fair comment, but if they stick to the original Emma is gradually revealed to be very heroic in her own right.
It shares an awful lot with The Constant Gardener

I still have vivid memories of the original mini series and especially of the haunting music written for it by Eric Clapton.

Like Muzz I also remember it for Bob Peck's slow burn. He would show that same grieving look burying his daughter or planning a raid on a nuclear facility making the latter all the more scary and ripe with impending doom.