The Crow Girl

The Crow Girl is a very well-made, pacy drama whose overall confidence, style and authenticity carry it over the odd clunking line (“They’re talking to us,” says one character of the corpses. “But what are they saying?”) and borderline cringe-making scenes around a patient with a supposed split personality.

When the separate threads start to weave together in the final half of the series, you may be ahead of some revelations, depending on how literate you are in the genre, but the writer’s command of the story remains impressive. Myles gives the series a nuanced, human face.

A thriller illuminated by the reliably likeable Myles but not afraid to get much darker than the average streaming whodunit.

The story is heavy at times, but the cast's on-screen chemistry and talents make it more enjoyable than it has any right to be. For fans of more pessimistic and dark detective material, The Crow Girl is easily a worthwhile watch; you'll just want to take a long, cleansing shower by the end of it.

We’re a bit wary that all the stories the first episode of The Crow Girl introduces won’t come together, and it’s a tonally inconsistent episode. But we’re also going to keep watching, mainly because of the potential twists and turns involved with those stories merging at some point.

Together they [Eve Myles and Dougray Scott] are a strong pairing, playing off each other with humour and chemistry. But they’re the only relief in The Crow Girl, a series that mistakes earnestness for significance and desolation for insight. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth.