The Crow Girl
If your entire desire in a show is to see Eve Myles make out with Katherine Kelly, than I have just the show for you! If you're looking for something deeper that actually makes sense, perhaps look elsewhere. I had long been looking forward to this adaptation as a fan of the aforementioned duo as well as Dougray Scott. It was originally scheduled for a January 2025 release on Paramount+ to eventually find itself on Acorn in the fall of last year. This show is hard to explain because on one level it's really easy, it's about police corruption involving Dougray Scott's character and him helping to run an illegal fight club with asylum seekers. So, one of my most hated tropes combined with people who need protection. Not easy to watch. In fact none of this is easy to watch because the other plotline is about is about a father who sexually abuses his daughter and how she is murdered all while the mother does nothing. I mean, it makes for riveting television, you need to know what happens next, but you aren't comfortable at all. There's a continual undercurrent of ick. And into this mess waltzes Katherine Kelly's therapist who wants to help Eve Myles with her case. And this is where things get preposterous. And I'm not even sure how the big twist works. Because I really don't think it's possible. So the men who run the fight club are the men who are abusers with the molesting papa. The whole show is to uncover their crimes and bring them to light. Because molesting papa is also Katherine Kelly's papa. He raped her her entire childhood and the girl her father is currently molesting is his daughter by his own daughter. Yeah. Real sick shit here. But this doesn't make sense chronologically. So the girl being currently abused is about sixteen, and Katherine Kelly's character was around a similar age when she gave birth to her daughter/sister. Which would mean Sophia the psychotherapist would be, at most, in her mid-thirties. Katherine Kelly is a decade older. And she looks it. Now I love her as an actress, but she can not pull off mid-thirties. Hell, Eve Myles couldn't pull off mid-thirties. So this big reveal that this young women they're looking for is this not very young woman who's been helping them? Nope. Don't buy it. It's not possible. That's not even taking this as far as I could take it. Some of her patients are her father's friends who abused her and yet they don't recognize her? I know she's got a stylish long bob with severe bangs now, but, this is someone you abused for years, you'd think they'd notice. Also, how did she get a medical degree under another name? I mean, she must have legally changed it, but there's something fishy here. You'd also think that before now she would have rescued her daughter. But no. Instead we have possible multiple personalities and confusion. In the end I was left with so many questions that didn't get answered and a feeling of ick and unease. So will I check out season two? I really don't know if I can be bothered let alone stomach it.
Of all the famous literary characters the world over I do not think any of them come close to Sherlock Holmes when it comes to adaptations. There are the canonically accurate adaptations but there are just as many parodies, pastiches, and perhapses. And one must 
