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There were things to like about this series. Some of the acting was quite good - Denis Menochet was remarkable. Marc-Andre Grondin certainly had his moments but his brooding and the constant look on his face of disgust or anger or hopelessness or whatever it was, got a little old. There were some plot twists, some pausible but many more, implausible. Overall I had very mixed feelings about this series. It didn't help that I couldn't separate Brendan Coyle from his role in this versus his role in Downton Abbey.

This show has excellent plotting, acting, and strong themes. It's suspenseful and entertaining. It's also filmed beautifully. Other reviewers mentioned Dexter--there is a similarity with the crime scenes, but I think this show handles that element with more artistry than Dexter did, and also handles the main character's exploration of the darkness people are capable of with more elegance and certainly more complexity.

Most of all, it's an incredibly astute and surprising character study, not just of the main characters, but of an entire cast of weird and wonderful people. Not one character is stock. I can't remember the last time I deeply cared about each and every character on a show. Some of them I hated (one, in particular, is one of the most flawed and frightening I can ever recall on TV), but I cared what happened to them all and could relate in some way to even the most disturbing of them.

A great show. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before I saw it on Netflix and for some reason decided to try it.

Just finished watching this series on Netflix and loved it. Can't wait for series 2.

I watch films and dramas to be entertained and realise they are fiction not reality so a bit of artistic licence is given. Were there elements which made me question the script? Yes, the daughter possibly would be more believable were she 14 or 15 in the script not 13 but as the father of a 15 year old daughter myself maybe I'm over sensitive in this area.

I too wouldn't have minded more foreign language where appropriate accompanied by subtitles but a mass audience might disagree.

I found the characters fully believable and immersed myself in their lives. There was enough subtlety in the acting to allow degrees of hatred, sympathy or identification. The storyline kept me engaged throughout the episodes filling in gaps as it went along.

For me it was a no question 10/10

Watched it without knowing anything about the series in advance.

My only regret is that I can't be a newbie and watch this series all over again from scratch, that's how much pleasure it gave me. What terrific casting. What great writing. You never know what's going to happen next. Wonderful.

One thing that I loved the most was the brother "Martin." He looks much like Robert Mitchum looked in Cape Fear, if R. M. had been much more hirsute. What a fun "bad boy" character. Denis Ménochet (Martin) exudes the same combination of quiet menace, boxer boy body and charisma as Mitchum had, too. Lots more of a softy at heart, though. A very good brother to have around, if only to make your life a lot more exciting. A real treat to watch.

The whole series is just one big luscious bag of tasty fun. I envy those of you who will be seeing it for the first time. Enjoy.

Its promising at first. But it became boring, and the show is too slow. There's funny. The ending, was it supposed continue to 2nd season? Idk

...for the fact that we will never see a second season.

This show is simply sensational: The plot, the characters, the acting, the soundtrack, the dialogues. Everything seems to be well-thought to be there. As others have said, it reminds a bit of Breaking Bad, but don't expect the same quality, of course. I really wish Netflix or any other big company would make a decent final season for it, even after so long.

The first two to three episodes were really intriguing. They had a great concept story and fantastic characters in the supposed villain and funny brother. Suddenly it started going downhill from episode 4 making no sense whatsoever. Rating went down further 2 stars after episode 6 - totally senseless now. Its exhausting to finish this now. The lead was the worst cast but the writer just deviated from gold to a puddle of mess

An absolute must series! (Well you obviously could pass, but more fool you). People that gave a low rating must have been distracted or just negative people for crime dramas in general. It's enticing, thrilling, sick and twisted, humorous at parts without being cheesy like some series are, it's certainly not a comedy.

First couple episodes are the slowest, but like all good series, necessary to paint the picture and set the journey off, having said that, the first two are still very good!

The series at times reminds me of Luther, in its feel of a show. However, it's not a cop investigation series in the same manner. Without giving any spoilers, I can see how some are making a similarity of one aspect of Spotless to that of Breaking bad, but it really isn't like watching Breaking Bad in the slightest, so don't expect either repetition or plagiarism.

I would have gave it 9.5 if the option was there, as 'Stranger Things' and 'Peaky Blinders' are the 10 bench mark. But going down to 9 seemed to unfair for a rare series that got me to watch all 10 episodes in 2 days!

Very nice, taut, well written , extremely novel plot, very good overall acting by all the characters. Well enacted & directed serial... I wish they come out with the 2nd Season soon..

Stumbled upon this on Netflix and the premise of the story caught my attention. Lets just say Spotless has a Breaking Bad sort of vibe. A guy who wants to do good but ends up doing the bad. It has its laughable moments but personally I think throughout the 10 episodes it was a rather solid series. Its a shame that there will probably never be a season2, but I do hope it gets picked up continue where it left off. Enjoyable series I must say!

The lead really is super poor in acting skills. Looks constipated most of the time and lacks expressions otherwise. The remaining cast is great but the writer really needed to use the chars there Bette and make this a dark drama instead of showing some justified side of a character who is shady to begin with.

How has this drama only one series? The characters are great, situations believable and good acting - what more could you want?

Half way into the series and I must say its all good so far.

I like the way that each episode is complete yet here is enough of the back story seeping through to keep you guessing!

Its strange watching a scani noir esc program based in my old home country.

I have watch this with subs but it may be possible to see it with a dubbed view, not sure just going on what others have said.

So far not a baget or citron in site!

I am surprised that such a great drama was not renewed. What a shame!

One of my all time favorite shows!! I kind of have a thing for good BBC shows and this is one of the best!! I fail to see why there weren't more seasons! Someone really dropped the ball here. While usually squeamish at the sight of blood, this show doesn't focus on that even though their job deals with it! Wonderful characters, script, and relationship with the various actors. Must be a great set!

This is perhaps one of the worst TV dramas I've ever tried to view and tried to complete the first episode. It's bad but I'm not surprised at all since anytime when the British film or TV dramas trying to make up something related to the mobster, gangster and so-called the British underworld, they usually turned out to be sucked to the extreme and as predicted, this show turned out to be exactly the same. I just don't know how could it possible this lame, laughable series would have fooled so many viewers and critics to give high rating.

Bad screenplays, bad scenarios, bad plots, and most of all, eye-sore poor acting of all the actors involved in this series. It's laughable instead of believable with terrible dialog. The acting of the two brothers are just as bad as you could imagine, other supporting cast are even worse beyond any word could describe.

Some genre definitions we need to clarify here: When you define 'Drama', it should be a 'Drama'; 'Thriller' should be 'Thriller', 'Crime' be 'Crime', 'Comedy' should be 'Comedy', and so on. But if you try to mix a 'Crime/Thriller' with 'Comedy', it will be like trying to mix oil with water, it'd never work, the result would be just turn such stupid mixture into a 'Farce'. This series is exactly like this, other than the poor screenplay and the stupid scenarios, lousy plot, the miserable casting job further deteriorated it and transform it into some deformed god-awful big laugh, insulting the viewers' I.Q.

So far, anything from the British entertaining biz, except they are adaptations from the classic, such as Dickens or other classic literature, all the so-called 'English Mysteries' created by those housekeeping wives created on their kitchen tables are nothing but self-righteous yet laughable shallow, unbelievable and ridiculous products. Those laughable dreamed-up 'Murder' cases, 'Inspector So-and-So', anything related to 'Police', just turned out to be laughable. That's why Dick Francis would have created a absolutely stupid character as a 'horse jockey' to be a crime solving P.I., and more and more house wives or even old spinsters to be the crime solvers, and most laughable fact is that these people have created so many murders in England that might have already wiped out about 1/3 of their population.

This series is too awful to watch and not worth writing a review for it, so the purpose of this review is just to warn off some people not to get brain damage and impair their I.Q.

Two French brothers get involved with the mob. The happy one on the right is married and has a good job as a crime scene cleaner. (Reminds me of the time I had to clean a liquefied body out of a closet in Ft Pierce as a paramedic). We scrubbed it down with bleach and tore out carpeting. The brother on the left is a neer do well that's gets his younger bro into trouble you see, in London. The series is in British English and is somewhat of a dark comedy with a great deal of violence and bloodshed. It probably wouldn't do for American TV, but then again Americans are quite violent and gun happy anyway. Enjoy this limited series and comment your thoughts on this topic. Pax and Amore, Murf