![]() Such chilliness notwithstanding, one does feel for Thorne, not the least because Morrissey naturally attracts sympathy, even when he plays characters who don’t really deserve it. The landmarks of the new school are not Big Ben and the Tower Bridge but the London Eye and that big glass building Londoners call the Gherkin, among less metaphors in the inhospitable, hard-edged city “Thorne” roams, even the old derelict buildings (where a killer might hide or a body be abandoned) are of comparatively recent vintage. One thing “Thorne” makes clear, alongside shows like"Luther"and Steven Moffat’s 21st century"Sherlock,"is that the quaint old London of Hercule Poirot and Peter Wimsey is all but gone as a setting for crime stories. There is also a tediously artsy, almost epicurean regard for the work of the psycho killer, a convention I’ve never much trusted or liked, but which has become standard for the form. Its visual tics seem imported from American procedurals like"CSI,"and if they make “Thorne” seem contemporary and excite its surface, they can also obscure whatever human story they have to tell you can’t see the grit for the gloss. in 2010, but here takes the form of back-to-back feature films - adapts two novels by Mark Billingham, “Thorne: Sleepyhead” and “Thorne: Scaredy Cat,” both of which concern apparent serial murders. ![]() The series, to stretch the term - it ran in six parts in the U.K. David Morrissey, a good-looking big lug of a British leading man with a talent for playing tortured rectitude, is the star and producer of “Thorne,” a detective drama airing Tuesday and Wednesday on Encore.
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