Babs Tarr, best known for her bold new visual take on Batgirl and the Image Comics series Motor Crush, handles the interior art. The series is written by Mariko Tamaki, who wrote 2014's critically acclaimed graphic novel This One Summer, as well as Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, the IGN People's Choice Winner for Best Graphic Novel of 2019. The photo of Molly Windsor in Traces was taken by Vishal Sharma, not Des Willie as originally stated.9 Images London Calling not only features one of the franchise's most popular characters, it also boasts quite an impressive creative team. This article was amended on 5 January 2021 to correct a photo credit provided by the BBC. Like I said, television has run out of television. It is far-fetched and convoluted and it doesn’t seem like it will stick in your mind for particularly long. That said, the first episode threads just enough needles to make you want to immediately watch the second that in turn threads enough to make you want to watch the third. Line of Duty thrives on a kind of adrenalised silliness, leapfrogging from preposterous twist to preposterous twist so quickly that the audience doesn’t have time to realise how little sense it makes. This is no doubt thanks to the inclusion of Compston. There has been some talk of Traces doing for forensics what Line of Duty did for corruption. There is a shot of a window and one of the forensics experts says: “That’s a window.” Someone finds a third dead body and another expert says: “That’s three dead bodies.” It is an annoying trope at the best of times, but, please, I am sure most of us know what a window is. In episode one, we see a burned-out room. Where something like CSI has the nous to blast through scenes on a rocket ship of impenetrable jargon, Traces takes far too much care to gently spell out everything for its slowest viewer. The forensics scenes, meanwhile, are much less convincing. This endless array of possible villainy gives Traces an enjoyably panto energy. It could be Martin Compston, because he seems quite nice. It could be Emma’s father, because he rides a motorbike.
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It could be Emma’s best friend’s mum, because she is full of wild conspiracy theories.
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It could be Jennifer Spence’s professor of detective anthropology, because at one point she receives a mysterious postcard from Australia. It could be Fraser’s character, a forensics expert referred to at one point as a “fire maestro”, because she constantly reassures Emma that the case study is a coincidence. You will be pleased to know that I have compiled a list of potential suspects from the first two episodes. We are not quite in the world of 24, where every supporting actor was contractually obliged to twiddle an imaginary moustache three times an episode in case they needed to be outed as a mole somewhere down the line, but we are not far off. Thankfully, the answer to the last question is “literally anyone”, since Traces is one of those shows where every character has a habit of answering questions by pausing for slightly too long, furtively glancing around and then awkwardly changing the subject. Is it a coincidence? Was there a coverup? Who could possibly be to blame? However, when she logs on to an online forensics course, she realises that the ostensibly fictional case study is based on – you guessed it – her mother’s death. Windsor plays Emma, a young woman who returns to Scotland years after her mother’s murder to take a job as a technician in a forensics laboratory. Certainly, it is much more effective when it leans towards the former. The pedigree is hard to beat, in other words.īut, on the other hand, there is a tangible uncertainty about the whole affair, as if Traces can’t make up its mind whether it wants to be The Killing or CSI. It is written by Amelia Bullmore, of Scott & Bailey, and was made by Red, which has been responsible for everything from Years and Years to Happy Valley.
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In the plus column, the series is loaded with talent, featuring the likes of Laura Fraser, Molly Windsor, Martin Compston (playing his native Scottish, rather than his Det Sgt David Beckham of Line of Duty) and John Gordon Sinclair. Would the BBC be broadcasting Traces if 2020 had been a normal year? It is hard to say. Traces is a Scottish forensics drama that was first shown on Alibi last December. There is a dearth of original programming and BBC One has been forced to plug the holes with whatever it can grab from other broadcasters. Although it managed to coast along fairly well for the better part of last year – and will hopefully kick back in soon enough – the gap in production caused by the spring lockdown has finally caught up with the schedules. I t brings me little joy to say this, but television has run out of television.
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