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It certainly is worth a better score than it has at present. Script and acting are both good. It is complex enough with several stories going at once. There are a range of characters who inhabit the story and who require some concentration to unravel their roles. It is about people's intertwining lives and how people in powerful positions are able to divert justice to protect their secrets. It is about good and evil and innocence and guilt. It is about parents and children and the power of relationships and the need that is intrinsic in human nature. There is mystery and suspense which drives the characters and story along. In my opinion, it is worth at least an eight. The English know how to deliver a suspenseful series and they excel at keeping the momentum going.

As much as I am enjoying Fearless make no mistake this is Helen McCrory's show and boy is she good as the maverick lawyer, trying to free the wrongly convicted and bring down major political figures and government 's in the pursuit of justice. Fearless is bit of a slow burner the first two shows concentrating on the wrongfull conviction for the murder of a young girl 15 years previously at an American airforce base. From the third show onwards Fearless really hits its straps taking us into new territory with several plot twists along the way. Well written, well acted Fearless ticks all the boxes. And watch out Olivia Coleman, Helen McCrory may soon take over your crown as the darling of UK TV and film,

I just saw only two episodes of it and i already started liking it. It started slowly with simple plot and makes you watch without a gap waiting for the next episode to air. It reminds me of True Detective but i sense more depth in it. I hope this continues in the next episodes without dragging too much. Script & screenplay is excellent.

So far amazing acting. Love UK crime series definitely make Hollywood a RATED B group of perfect looking people with oddly enough the same whitest and straight teeth whilst lacking any type of good character acting. Another great series headed by an actress in her prime! Way to go UK. US is so far behind in the leading roles for woman. Great characters, UK is so much better than US in allowing the character flaws assimilating into the actors strengths! Great job will continue to watch,

We couldn't stop watching and would love a season 2 tomorrow! Banville was compelling, as was Greenwood. Would love to see these two characters fleshed out even more. Her partners retorts to her demands at the end were brilliant. I'd like to see more of Dom next season (right, get on this!?) I'v managed to watch all Brit TV for the past 6 years & have raved to family members about the quality & depth of programs where no one screams, all women aren't pretending to be tough guys & how USA TV is shite.... to no avail...until we all cut the cord. We all now are members of BritBox, AcornTv, Walter Presents, Netflix, AMZN & the list will expand. As long as you produce shows like Fearless, River, Paranoid, Happy Valley, Norskov, Rita we'll happily live to see the demise of USA crap TV. This wasn't the BEST show ever, but it beats 99% of what we're offered on this side of the Atlantic. More, more more!

Once you got past the awful title sequence and the usual, dull latter-day accompanying title song, this six-part contemporary political thriller made for entertaining watching.

Centring on lost-cause defence solicitor Helen McCrory's Jane Banfield's penchant for taking on tough cases for what might seem on the face of it unsympathetic defendants, she apparently quite happily lets the client and indeed the family of her clients stay over at her place.

The main story here concerns the unsafe conviction of a young father for the murder 14 years ago of a 15 year old girl, mainly down to a confession forced out of him by an over-keen female police detective played by Wunmi Mosaku, who becomes one of the focal points for Banfield's later campaign for the man's release. There's a connected sub-plot too involving a young Syrian mother who is staying at Banfield's pending immigration clearance and whose absent husband is suspected of terrorist sympathies.

The stories take many a twist and turn as you'd imagine over six episodes, involving a female mysterious American "fixer" with her own reasons for keeping the convicted "murderer" in jail, a senior British Whitehall mandarin in on the cover-up and in particular a new, young rising-star Labour politician who they seem to be helping to the top of the so-called political greasy pole, for their own ends. The fixer will stop at nothing to cover her tracks, including blackmail and attempted murder as she reports back to her ruthless U.S. Intelligence bosses and seems to keep one step of Banfield and her investigation until the latter's persistence pays off and the whole house of cards falls down in a dramatic conclusion outside the by-now new Labour leader's house.

While much of the story seemed to credit Banfield with detective instincts of which Sherlock Holmes would be proud, as well as the usual unbelievable coincidences and fantastic high-level connections, the action was fast-moving and carried forward by a fluid production acted out well by a mostly quality cast with Michael Gambon in particularly fine form as the oily, senior British link in the American chain of deception although quite what comedian John Bishop was doing as Banfield's "bit-of-rough" current boyfriend, I'm not quite sure but it didn't have much to do with acting skills.

It didn't look like there were markers laid down for future series featuring the Banfield character which would be a shame as her character is a strong one and one can easily imagine her returning a la "Prime Suspect's" Helen Mirren or "Happy Valley's" Sarah Lancashire, but be that as it may, this was superior small-screen drama well worth viewing.

Fantastic story line to keep you interested. I looked forward to the viewing each week. The actress was perfect for the role. I never wrote reviews before but this certainly deserved it. I also liked that it offered a mixture of characters and scenes not just in England but the USA too. If you like crime & mystery but like to have an ending then this is for you. I don't want to mention anything and spoil it for anyone but I gave this a 10/10.

Not going to do an in-depth review but I thought it was just okay.

A little too predictable all through and also too strung out. Would have been better in 3 or 4 episodes.

I have to say that some of the acting was terrible, particularly the actress playing Detective Greenwood, the (hostile) female colleague at the law firm and worst of all the kid playing Jason Russell who was truly awful and really just needed a smack! Oh and whoever cast John Bishop should be shot. He was TERRIBLE! The ending was a bit of a let down and anti-climax.

Only worth watching if nothing better is on.

I am enjoying this,think I will stick with it. I was tempted not to watch it at all due to all the hype in the media about it. Of course I won't go into plot details but this is similar to things like SECRET STATE(TV),STATE OF AFFAIRS(TV) DEFENCE OF THE REALM(film),a sort of political conspiracy thriller. This has a good cast,including in a small part the beautiful Sammy Winward.

This is the sort of thing I like but it might not be for everyone,you need to pay attention to keep up with what is going on.

This series was impossible for me to stop watching on Amazon Prime. It grabbed me from episode 1 and I binge watched the entire season. It was impossible to predict what was going to happen next, and that's unusual for me. I'm American, but I'm really beginning to appreciate British and Australian programs. This program is superb.

A British ACLU type lawyer seeks to overturn a murder case and finds herself neck high into Deep State shenanigans with the CIA, IS, and British counter terrorism. McCrory is great as the steely lawyer, with more concern for her case than the victims, and at times with more arrogance than sense. I get a little tired of the U.S. being the Brit's whipping boy, and more than tired of Deep State conspiracy plots. The CIA and MI6 seem to be nothing but hit squads. Robin Weigert is also great as the CIA nemesis. In the end the loose ends get tied up and all is well as plot holes get smoothed over with glib rationalizations.

I rarely write negative reviews, in fact I don't think I have. I have to write one for this show. I found it utterly torturous to get through this series (S1). A seemingly constant soundtrack, overwrought acting, caricatured American "people in the shadows", very slow progress. Just a few examples of why I'm relieved to have finished it (I had to see it through because I had invested too much time and also in the hopes it would improve). It could have comfortably been cut to three episodes.

Helen McCrory is always reliable but this show did her a disservice.

Just finished watching this on ITV plus. Wonderful acting all round. It's quite simply a damn good drama. Lots of dodgy and dark characters. Well paced plot with barely any padding. Well worth the watch. Thanks ITV for bringing it back.

If this had just stuck to the personal I'd have been happy but it strayed into political territory and became, sorry, boring. Plus it was a bit too contrived.

One of the best series I have watched in 2017. Brit's and the Scandinavians are running for the top spot when it comes to crime thrillers. Great plot, beautiful narration and brilliant editing. Simple local crime tied into a larger story all added up really well. The side drama with Syria was a waste of time. Overall, I would still say Brilliant!

OK thriller with a somewhat convoluted plot with of course the boogieman being the US intelligence service. Great acting by Helen in a role as a lawyer similar to an ACLU type activist.

This show was not just suspenseful but it touched on a lot of real topics in this world that made you want to see what was going to happen next. The acting was amazing. Helen McCrory was "The Truth" in Peaky Blinders and she for sure did her thing in Fearless. It is a much watch series.

I love Helen and I really enjoyed the energy of the show. I would love to see her with more stories.

I thoroughly enjoyed this small series, I can not sing the praises of Helen .McCrory enough what a brilliant actress so sad she is no longer with us. She played Polly in Peaky Blinders too which again outstanding.

Fearless was well written and acted and kept you guessing until the end. Helen's character had nerves of steel and nothing scared her. It had some elements of the story that were a little close to the truth and it shows what lengths people in power will go to, to protect themselves.

It shows so many human emotions and Helen McCrory really brings her character to life in search for the truth even when it appears to be a lost cause.

It definitely deserved a second series however sadly this wasn't the case.