The drama series, set in a Dorset coastal town, returns for a third season. It continues to follows DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller attempting to find out the trace of the murder. What will they uncover?
Here, the first act plays out with unusually careful detail and sombreness; it feels as though television is also undertaking sexual offences training.
Colman and Tennant have evolved an amusingly peevish and impatient banter between themselves, though maybe it's just as well Broadchurch is ending before they can turn into Dempsey and Makepeace.
It's brilliant by both Colman and Tennant again, a portrait of a close working relationship that is at times tetchy, at others bordering on close friendship, but always convincing and so very human.
The investigation is only ever part of Broadchurch's appeal. The rest lies in its characters and the bickering rapport between Hardy and Miller, which pleasingly, hasn't changed a jot.
