Series 18

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It is a very good series but they aren't all as fantastic as Falling Angels. I was reading some director/writer notes about it somewhere on my travels around the internet and it seems they have ramped up their game for series 18. When they originally brought Jack into it a couple of years ago(the Irish guy) they were trying to make it feel less 'middle class/old school tie network' by introducing a working class guy who'd worked his backside off to get the job. He was/is very edgy compared to the characters which were with Emilia Fox before (again can't speak for the Amanda Burton years here). They are now bringing contemporary London into the mix which has worked fantastically well so far.
I really don't know how they are going to top Falling Angels. Not a word of a lie I've watched it about 6 times at least. The whole thing is a masterpiece in the midst of the ordinary (and I don't mean that in a pejorative sense) Silent Witness series of narratives. It could have been a stand alone drama(film!) by itself. When I was watching the first episode of the story arc I was a little confused because it was so different to anything they've done before and it didn't feel like Silent Witness. It all came together in the second one and I realised that the reason it felt odd was because it was just a blinding piece of drama, way,way above anything you'd normally expect.
Just about everything was spot on, the use of metaphorical and literal mirrors and reflection, the extreme opposites of the city, sweeping, lofty city scapes and the dirty, secret underground labyrinth of the tube system, numerology signifying transmutation, exceptional musical score (James Blakes Retrograde at the end of episode one for example, lots of meanings - degenerate person, going backwards, going downhill, to slide backwards etc) but the biggest kudos has to go to Leila Mimmack and in particular Jack Roth, playing Lana and Owen. I'm just in awe of it. They owned that story. They were blindingly good, they shone that bright, and I was rooting for them in spite of the path they had set themselves on. I actually felt ill when I realised what was going to happen because it was like I was watching a pair of real people. The real villain of the story is us - passing people by , not caring, not listening to those in need, not helping to develop sense of self worth ; so many people are lost, not just those on the streets and we ignore them with tragic consequences. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee....reflect on that society.