As a movie, this had the potential to be up there with 'long, stock' and other british cult classic. In fact, if you look at the project's history, you'll find that exactly what the creator was going for, until he folded and accepted to do a tv series for C4 that's now incorrectly regarded as a netflix original.

In the process, the comic from which it's based on has been completely rethought, the ending rewritten, heck, the beginning and middle of it, too. Sometimes, It works wonderfully (the dynamic between the two female cops is superbly scripted and acted). Sometimes, it's a catastrophic cluster****, in particular the added scenes that feel 'tacked on' and the utterly disastrous ending, which I laughed throughout (and it wasn't meant to be funny).

Noticeably, the last episode is 18m long. I mean what better way to scream "we ran out of money/ideas" than wrapping up 8h of series in 20 minutes with the most bizarre, unrealistic portrayal of armed police in the UK. I found it quite offensive actually as it was insulting my intelligence when the show so far had done a good job at being 'clever' and avoiding the usual tropes.

5/10 because of the wonderful acting and decent photography. Just skip the last episode if you want to keep a good opinion of this one.