Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... and Raymondo, feel a lot more like real people and less like caricatures. Keeley Hawes’ Alex Drake is a more sympathetic protagonist to me than John Simm’s Sam Tyler, and not just because she’s female. She has far more at stake in her attempts to find her way home, and is a lot more realised as a character. (Going home was never going to be much of a happy ending...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
ASHES to Ashes' DI Alex Drake joins the boys in blue - wearing another odd 80s outfit
The Life of Wylie (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
... to the team dynamic. With last series’ cliffhanger leaving audiences with the frightening image of Alex lying shot on a hospital gurney, the questions on everyone’s lips are “will Alex survive?” And “how will her colleague and accidental assassin Gene Hunt dig himself out of that hole?” The smash hit drama, made by Kudos Film and Television in association with Monastic Productions,...
