Hawes runs a newly created 'identity' unit at New Scotland Yard, which basically means they can muscle in on any crime, since everyone has an identity. Starting off with an episode involving identity theft, the series seemed promising, but the wooden dialogue and clunky direction, not to mention the absolute boredom on Gillen's face served to remind that this is an ITV drama, therefore it's not very good because there's no time for such things as character development, since there needs to be an ad break in a minute. But this is a silly accusation - US dramas are 40 minutes long, due to 20 mins of adverts, why are they so much better? Ah but US dramas have 22 episodes in which to flesh out characters, British dramas have to make do with 6. Having said that, the 3-episode long first series of Sherlock was an absolute belter, but more on that later...Back to Identity then. Keeley Hawes, who has been well served by Spooks and Ashes to Ashes, deserves better material to work with than this. Aiden Gillen I've only seen before in Queer as Folk (I've not seen him in The Wire yet) and he was good in that, but I don't think he's much of an actor. Maybe he just needs the work, but he's supposed to be the star of Identity, inexplicably Hawes' character seems to have a crush on him whereas I just couldn't care. Are we supposed to sympathise with this man, who still continues a secret identity with a Turkish girlfriend with connections to organised crime, whilst almost single-handedly solving each case of the week? I hope this doesn't get renewed because Andrew seemed to like it, and I might have to watch it again.
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