I’ve always hated wasps; they’re useless critters and sure enough, as if I needed more reason to dislike them, it was a spawn of Satan wasp that caused the Collision.

But I suppose to give the wasp its due, it also caused love among the pile up. Mind you, one of those love affairs would’ve meant a bloke leaving his wife… mmm, every silver lining has a cloud eh?

I must say, it was a factor that took me a tad by surprise in a drama that had been filled with intrigue and what-ifs, but the wasp did in fact make its presence known in the very first episode, so the clue was there, we just had to be able to absorb seemingly useless trivia.

The scene in which the waitress tried to kill it didn’t seem especially relevant at the time but of course, with hindsight, if she’d swatted it, none of what happened would’ve happened. It’s all very interesting and chaos theory, which for me, added to the general excellence of the drama. Read more & comment »

Co-written by Anthony Horowitz and Michael A Walker, this fast-paced but intricately woven drama on ITV last night proved the validity of that old idiom about not trying to reinvent the wheel; the simple ideas will always work well.

And the drama’s focal point is something that intrigues us all – the what ifs and the whys when an accident happens. That thought that maybe fate really does have a guiding hand in our lives because that other well used phrase, ‘if only’ is rarely more apropos.

By providing a back-story to everyone who was in the genuinely spectacular collision of the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin title, Horowitz and Walker posed lots of questions, but one thing that I did have to take some issue with was, would so many of the people in the crash be involved in something ‘shady’? Read more & comment »

Detective Inspector John Tolin (Douglas Henshall) returns to work after an extended period of leave following the tragic death of his wife. Tolin is a damaged man, but he’s anxious to move on and get back to work.

His first case is an investigation into multiple pile up on the A12 – not normally a matter for their department but this case is different.

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