The Veiled One

Transmitted just before Christmas in 1989, what a festive downer. I love the Wexford adaptations, Baker was truly brilliant, generally the standard is very good, unfortunately this feature length episode is below par.

I'll start with the positives, the source material is good, the opening may not sound good, but it's visually rather good. The one shining light is Paola Dionisotti, she is terrific, with that hairstyle and attitude she's like something from another era, she's very excellent.

The exploding car scene is very good, it's one of the few scenes that is visually good, that dream sequence is just plain horrible.

Sadly, it's poor, it feels so at odds with the rest of the series, there is a harshness about this production, which truly is at odds with the generally softer nature of other episodes.

The music is dreadful, it grates from beginning to end. It is very slow and padded out, it lacks the content to have such a running time. We don't even get the opening credits.

I keep hoping for the series to get a full dvd release, I could cope without this one. 5/10.