Criminal: UK is almost too sleek in its return for Season 2
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"Nothing is out of place on Criminal: UK," Steve Greene says of the Netflix police interrogation series. "The closest things get to being disheveled is a chair left untucked or maybe a door left slightly ajar. Otherwise, the Netflix interrogation drama slides rather confidently into the polished professionalism category of TV shows, where drama happens in spite of perfectly designed interiors bathed in carefully controlled mood lighting. It’s that sense of impeccable theatricality that leads to the central tension in Criminal. The audience is faced with suspects tied to crimes theoretically inspired by real-life instances of kidnapping, assault, trafficking, and murder. But the show itself often feels like a simulation. It’s a well-composed one, but that gap between the show’s raw real-time ambitions and the tidiness of the final product is one that always seems to hover over that questioning room table."
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