Anita Singh

I’m not sure it has the potential to run for several series, but it works for now. Try it for yourself, and you might be taken aback by the limits of your recall.

Unchosen heads into weak thriller territory, complete with a car chase and a silly kidnap.

Half Man is a weaker piece of work but, once again, it leaves a nasty taste.

All the usual elements are present and correct: a plucky heroine who solves the crime when her more experienced colleagues can’t; a scene in which someone stares at a suspect board; a lesbian kiss. We’ve seen it all before. The language is the only break from the norm.

Scott is always watchable but can’t rise above the quality of the material. It’s all too slow, too sombre.

The characters are complex, the tone warm and non-judgmental. It was adapted for TV by David E Kelley, creator of Ally McBeal and husband to Pfeiffer. If only the drama were as funny as the Rufi Thorpe novel on which it is based.

At just five episodes, it feels lean and never boring.

All of this is investigated in the low-stakes style of Only Murders in the Building. Unfortunately, The ’Burbs, produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane, isn’t half as funny or camp as that show. Nor does it have the thrills and chills of Netflix’s The Watcher, which trod similar ground. What it does have is Whitehall, in quite the worst piece of transatlantic casting since they put Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The claustrophobia and hysteria build, but Morrone’s winning performance grounds everything in some sort of reality. The conversations between Rachel and Nicky ring true when they’re joking about their relationship.

The characterisation from Kinnaman and Santelmann is top notch, and the scenes between them are the best thing here, but there is a problem with the drama’s narrative flow.