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Waking the Dead: Trevor Eve
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"Before there was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, there was Waking the Dead. Beating the premiere of the American forensic investigation phenomenon by just under a month, this BBC series works to a similar, if slightly less flashy, framework. The action centres around a London-based "Cold Case" squad, a small and elite team tasked to crack cases that have either never been solved or whose results have been called into dispute. The unit is led by DCI Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve), a brilliant but hot-tempered and often irrational man who gets results through any means necessary. Joining him are criminal profiler Dr. Grace Foley (Sue Johnston), pathologist Dr. Frankie Wharton (Holly Aird), and detectives DS Spencer "Spence" Jordan (Wil Johnson) and DC Amelia "Mel" Silver (Claire Goose). Over the course of this first series, the team struggle to find their feet as they are faced with impossible demands for quick results in a business that often takes a very long time indeed."
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Trevor Eve, who stars as Peter Boyd in Waking The Dead, said: "Alexei was tremendous fun; a creative eccentric who was ... a dear friend. "I am very saddened by the news of his death and will miss him greatly. "His ideas were always original and unexpected and made our four years' working together thoroughly enjoyable. "I send my sincerest condolences to his family."
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"Waking The Dead" veers into condescension once too often for comfort, though, losing credibility in the process as it takes audience stupidity for granted. The movie jumps back and forth in time from 1972-73 to 1982-83, covering Fielding and Sarah's love affair in the former and Fielding's self-destruction in the latter. There's nothing wrong with this - mixed up timelines are often effective, haunting tools. Or at least they are when the director recognizes the intelligence of his audience. Not so in "Waking The Dead" - every single time we move back or forward in time, Gordon pastes a cringe-inducing year title on the screen, apparently uncertain that the fade-to-whites between each time period are enough to clue us into the fact that we're in the past or the present. It's a small thing, but it's a symptom of a greater problem with the movie.
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Notice that the female forensic scientists in Waking the Dead don’t show up in the lab with necklines that plunge to their miniskirts. London is less thrilling than CSI: Miami, and the cold-case squad under the sometimes hysterical leadership of Chief Inspector Boyd (Trevor Eve) is all furious business as it flashes back to World War II to find out why someone has spent decades tracking down perfectly ordinary-seeming men in their humdrum homes, only to hammer nine-inch nails in their heads. I’d say that this is an especially gruesome case in a dark-slicks series, but forthcoming episodes feature even more baroque twists: abducted 5-year-old twins, terrorist bombs, dead bodies with sorry carved on their backs, and a mesmerist who talks disturbed young women into killing their families. So each episode is as gruesome as it’s smart and slick.
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