POLICE crime drama Better has left TV fans all saying the same thing following the second episode.
The five-part series sees Leila Farzad lead the cast as DCI Lou Slack in BBC One’s new offering.
BBC crime drama Better has left viewers calling out the plotline
Fans don’t think Better is a patch on fellow BBC crime drama Happy Valley
The plotline explores the complex and powerful bonds of loyalty and family, set in a world where everyone has their own version of “right” and “wrong.”
Examining the power of human conscience, viewers follow bent copper DI Lou Slack’s epic battle towards redemption.
In the second instalment, she decides to try to end ties with rogue Col McHugh and stop supplying him with insider information.
She tells her husband of her plans and considers resigning from her role, before drumming up a plan to escape her predicament.
Yet Better viewers were left far from convinced by the “dreadful” plotline.
One took to Twitter to muse: “One of the slowest so-called crime dramas @BBCOne has shown. Gave up on it due to losing will to live.”
Another added: “I hope #better gets better but I doubt it, truly dreadful so far…..it ain’t no #HappyValley.”
Another bluntly put: “Nope. Can’t get into it.”
One then wrote: “Hey #bbc We’re not all watching programmes on tellys the size of Odeon cinema screens so how about adding subtitles for scenes that involve text messages? If I bother sticking with #Better I may have to invest in some opera glasses.”
Another then concluded: “New police drama #BETTER was terrible! Poor show from the BBC, acting was bad, plot was stupid, definitely not gripping nor a replacement for Happy Valley (as billed!) Shocking. More #C5 than #BBC !!”
BBC drama Happy Valley wrapped this year in a dramatic series finale which left much of the nation gripped.
Meanwhile, Better was written by the talented duo Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley.
The pair are best known for the TV shows Spooks, and Humans.
Speaking about the show, Sam told the BBC: “Better explores a few themes, but the topmost one is morality.
“It is about good and bad. It is the exploration of a bad person trying to become good and how difficult that is.
“And if that’s even possible, really, and what good and bad means, how people feel about themselves in different ways.”
One telly fan called out the ‘dreadful’ script
It came after scenes showed bent copper DCI Lou Slack decide to shun her criminal connections
One fan quipped they were ‘losing the will to live’ amid the ‘slow’ plotline
