Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

rsapygmies I started watching and thought well, maybe. However, I liked the crimes and how they were checked and got convictions. BUT the Rachel character got on my nerves with her neuroses. How they even thought she was doing ok as Sergeant is beyond me because she was petty, spiteful and mostly out of control. Loved Janet and wished I had such self control and most favorite was Gill.I gave it a 5 because I began to want to slap Rachel in EVERY show starting with Season 3. I almost stopped watching because she was too neurotic.

barbaradailey Actually, I loved the show but got so tired of Bailey being an airhead, I had to stop watching it.

georgeritmeester As this and other shows/movies illustrate, trying to solve crimes provides way more drama and tension than good guys and bad guys shooting machine guns at each other. And the actors are believable as experienced police detectives, unlike with so many American shows where the alleged FBI experts, street-savvy cops or whatever look like they just gave up a modeling job yesterday to join the FBI/police force/etc. And the personal issues the two main detectives are dealing with seem real rather than contrived, as is so often the case with Hollywood-type crime dramas. Scott and Bailey has one thing in common with Perry Mason. In Perry Mason, once Perry confronts the real killer in court, the killer always caves and confesses. It would be interesting to see an episode where Perry still has to prove it to a jury's satisfaction in a new trial. In Scott and Bailey, they always solve the crime just at the end of the episode, but never have to prove it in court. The show always ends without a trial for the actual perpetrator. This is not a huge problem as the viewer can be confident the available evidence will be sufficient for a conviction. However, some episodes end without any understanding of the motive behind the killing. Perhaps the motive is revealed but not always readily apparent? This isn't necessarily a negative. Many episodes are so complex one can certainly enjoy a second viewing, unlike with paint by the numbers Hollywood crime dramas. However, things do proceed at a brisk pace. I find that I often have to read an episode summary to clearly understand the entire episode. But this probably has as much to do with the British accents as anything else. I often can't make out what was said (thus often missing key points) and wouldn't mind having sub-titles for this show.

Ish Reyes I enjoy watching detective series from the UK, Australia and New Zealand to avoid all the melodrama that the majority of USA detective series feel they have to add to make the show watchable. I always though that these countries contribution to the detective genre involved great detecting techniques and cops that were very capable of working out the evidence in a case (Luther, Shetland, The Fall, River, DCI Banks, Inspector Morris, Inspector George Gently, Prime Suspect, Death in Paradise, Foyle's War Endeavor, Inspector Lewis, Hinterland, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Brokenwood Mysteries, etc.). Well Scott and Bailey changed this perspective for me. This is a show about a group of detectives (made up primarily of women) in the Manchester Major crime unit that involve themselves in more questionable behavior then I would think is acceptable. By my count, they caused, through their negligence, ignorance, and dealing with personal problems, the death of more then 4 people and the screwing over of several of their policing peers. Actually in a pair of episodes DCI Gill admits as much during her kidnapping. I found myself fast forwarding through the personal stuff and most of the time they spend outside of the police offices smoking which is, in hindsight, a lot.OK to watch if there is nothing else on the TV but otherwise not a killer UK series like the ones mentioned above.