Suspect (TV series)


Suspect is a British crime drama television series. Adapted by Matt Baker, it is based on the Danish series Face to Face, which was created by Christoffer Boe. Suspect premiered on 19 June 2022 on Channel 4.
It was commissioned for a second series, with Baker being replaced as writer by Joy Wilkinson and David Allison. That series began broadcast on 17 July 2024.

Premise

Detective Danny Frater, after finding his daughter's body in the mortuary, presumably by suicide, retraces her final days to discover what happened, interviewing a range of her acquaintances. In series 2, a hypnotherapist is visited by a man who says he wants to quit smoking. Under hypnosis, he says he kills girls and she must stop him.

Cast

Series 1

Series 2

Production

The first series was commissioned by Channel 4 in September 2021. Filming for the series began the following month, and generated slight controversy as customers were turned away while filming was undertaken at a Texaco in Vauxhall during the fuel crisis.

Reception

The critical response to the first series was mediocre. Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian labelled it an "awfully cartoonish crime series" and awarded it two out of five stars. Nick Hilton in The Independent also gave it two out of five stars, and wrote that DS Danny Frater is "hitting every cliché possible, from every genre of detective fiction." Another two stars review was published in the i paper by Rachael Sigee, who stated that "Suspect’s wordy half-hour instalments offered a lot of script but didn’t seem to be saying very much or do enough to make you care about the characters". On Metacritic, the series holds a score of 49, "Mixed or average reviews".