The Capture series two review – implausible, daft and thoroughly gripping

‘Espionage hokum’ … Holliday Grainger as DI Rachel Carey and Paapa Essiedu as Isaac Turner in The Capture Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz/BBC/Heyday Films

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – when you pull the big knife from a wooden block in the kitchen to defend yourself from nocturnal attackers, the blade doesn’t make a metallic sound. Stop reading this right now and go and find out for yourself if you don’t believe me.

But does anybody hear me when I shout these truths at the television? Of course not. It just carries on regardless.