Looking at last week’s ratings it seems that Vexed was one of BBC2′s lowest performing shows of the week while I concede it was up against The Olympics the channel’s other shows about Midwives and The Amish did reasonable numbers while Vexed underperformed massively. Even though I wasn’t a big fan of episode one I thought there would at least be enough support for this series seeing as it had fans from its first run however the lure of the games proved too much competition. Personally I don’t think you’d miss anything if you turned into this week’s episode, other than the first meeting between Jack Armstrong and Georgina Dixon but you pick up on the basics of their relationship pretty quickly, plus there seems to be more of a spark in his week’s instalment including more of an interest into the central mystery which this week involves the death of student Laura Edwards.

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When you have a cop show that features partners how well the programme succeeds is almost always based on the chemistry between the two leads with male/female partnerships being the most difficult, as there’s always a question of whether they’ll ever get it on.

A few weeks ago we had Case Sensitive in which Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd’s Charlie and Simon eventually ended up getting it on, while in the first series of BBC2′s Vexed the characters played by Lucy Punch and Toby Stephens were very close despite her already being attached.

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