You only have to sit through an episode or two to realize how tailor-made James Nesbitt is to play the troubled ‘hero’ of this dark series. Sure, he’s charming as hell and it’s easy to understand how everybody in the series — on both sides of the law — falls for his blarney time after time. There’s depth to the pain behind those smiling eyes, though, and it’s the key to making the show work as we follow Murphy, a damaged man haunted by the death of his daughter in Northern Ireland. A few of the shows get a little to procedural as the series goes by, but even when it’s following a connect-the-dots plot, Nesbitt makes it feel fresh and real.
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