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Primeval

reviewed by alasdair stuart Season 3. Episode 4

Starring Jason Flemyng, Andrew Lee-Potts, Lucy Brown,

Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Laila Rouass, Ben Mansfield

and Ramon Tikaram

The week after the week before. Last week Primeval did something genuinely brave, breaking its format permenantly and killing it’s main character, Nick Cutter, on screen. The glue that held the ARC team together, Cutter’s death leaves them rudderless and

fragile, all too aware of the incredible dangers of their job. This episode the three primary threats; the anomalies, Mick Harper’s investigation and the fact that they are no longer the only government-sponsored Anomaly operation out there, all come together...

Whilst Douglas Henshall leaves an undeniable gap, this is easily the best episode so far this season. The ARC team feel squeezed from all sides as Mick Harper outmanouveres them, the government seem to be working around them and a very, very large Giganotosaurus does it’s best to eat them. The way they rise to the pressure, most notably Lee-Potts’ Connor seems to mark a definite progression in the series, as characters are forced to grow and move far outside their comfort zone. This is largely a Connor epiode in fact, as he builds on one of the discoveries in the first episode, is put in mortal danger and has it driven home to him once and for all just how dangerous the job is.

The sheer scale of the episode and the ‘G-Rex’ helps too and the sheer pulp glee of seeing a dinosaur/helicopter chase sequence really can’t be overstated. Jason Flemyng’s Danny Quinn is also huge fun, a completely traditional action hero who is all too aware both of that and the lunacy of his new job. He’s both a continuation of Cutter and a welcome change and it’s going to be fascinating to see where the show goes with him.

The episode isn’t perfect, by any means, especially the Mick Harper sub plot. Careening off into stereotype it ends in a muddy fashion that does a disservice to both the actor and the character. But that aside, this is a great episode of a show which is only getting more fun. Give it a try.

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