Blackpool was ... very good.
It’s a bizarre little show but I highly recommend it and you can watch it all in an afternoon.
It’s a musical but not a musical, and a murder mystery but not a murder mystery and there are barely any characters (apart from Detective Blythe and Hallworth bless them) who were completely bad or good all the way. In fact, the two male leads were so completely bang in the middle of morally grey that I still don’t know what I think of either of them and I don’t think I’ll ever figure it out.
When I say it’s a murder mystery but not a murder mystery I really mean it. That’s the premise, but there’s honestly a whole other show with the exact same premise where we actually focus on the detective who cares about solving the case, and that’s certainly not what this show is.
It’s a brilliant character study with no straight questions or answers that focuses on people you’re cheering one minute and disgusted by the next and it’s honestly just ... excellent.
An excellent, crazy, bizarre, little show.