TV review: Liar proves unsatisfying in its conclusion

TV SHOW "LIAR" Ioan Gruuffud and Joanne Froggatt

After six weeks the final episode of Liar on TV One left me cold.
The last episode had nary a clue, a twist or a hint as to how treacherous alleged rapist Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd), a surgeon, had died, splayed decoratively but very dead in the marshes.

The same marshes and waterways where it had all began for Laura (Joanne Froggatt) in episode one where she was out kayaking.

She meets Andrew, they go out for dinner and the next morning is chaos as Laura screams rape.

Over the past six weeks there have been countless flashbacks to ''that night" as police investigate the suave surgeon who is eventually found to have drugged and raped seven women all up.

We are left constantly questioning who is exactly right and who is wrong.

I have to admit Andrew appeared innocent many times and I know I questioned Laura's motives and her determination to slash and burn him.

But that, of course, was how supposed to be for us viewers.

The programme throughout was about her efforts to bring Andrew to justice and there were times when it got a bit tedious.

The series started as a slow-moving pot boiler and all became a bit dubious and of not much importance.

After three weeks of Laura's passion for legal justice the programme began to gain importance when she cleverly found the other women who said they had been sexually messed up by Andrew's charms.

What was weird in this plot was how often Laura and Andrew talked on the phone and in person after the initial alleged crime had taken place - which meant that in this tight-knit seaside community it quickly became a screwed-up cat and mouse game.

There were dozens of moves all baffling and bizaare which had one lulled into thinking the series was leading up to a dynamite crescendo.

With characters rolling in and out constantly it meant it very fast became a bit senseless with none of these characters wholly developed.

I was bamboozled a few times and thought it surely must end in a spectacular "Whooooa never saw that coming".

Sadly, the ending, I felt, was set up to pave the way for series two. I remain disappointed and am not hanging out for series two.

The story was all there but ultimately nothing happened and that was after six weeks of assorted herrings and theories. Not for me.

Result: Programme well done. Final episode result - nil.