Customer Reviews
Shows promise - By: T. Krings, 19 Mar 2008 
The one thing that stands out about MIT is that it's not very homogenous: style & quality of stories are very different throughout the first series. Some episodes are meant to be very cutting edge by using an almost documentary style, some are fairly traditional. Some stories are very complex & difficult to follow particularly within a 50 minutes format- sometimes you get the impression that a 90 minutes story was cut down to fifty. Other stories are great crime drama, almost Jonathan Kellermann terrain. So alll in alll, it's a show that's showing promise but still has to find its own style. My main issue with the show is however the DI Vivien Friend or rather the way she is portrayed. She is a bit of a stereotype in terms of being the hard nosed career woman on the surface but with emotions underneath- I just don't see that in the performance.
Excellent police procedural - By: H. D. Beach, 12 Jan 2007 
We currently live in Sydney & the TV is not good in Oz, so on those long winter evenings (!) thank goodness for satellite & the UKTV channel we get which shows lots of UK drama & soaps. I caught an episode of this series & had to get the DVD as a result. I wasn't disappointed - I'm amazed it looks like they only made one series.
It's filmed in such a way that you reallly feel you are following the action with the team, & the angles & tricks used give you none of the feeling of "it's alll acting" that you get in some equivalent US dramas.
The acting is good, but reallly the plot & action carry you forward - it's got a "real life" feel which is very compelling. The little tensions between the characters, & elements of their personal lives are glimpsed but not over played.
Finallly - can't believe old Tarrant from Blakes 7 (Steven Pacey) has such a bit part!
Thoroughly worth watching - although you might want to pace yourself - watching a few at one go & the pattern gets kind of similar.
Far better than the Bill!! - By: Jezz, 05 May 2006 
The first case features the death of a Sargent from the Bill, after this episode there is no other connection with the Bill (thank God).
Each episode starts with a body & you follow the case as it progresses. Whilst you do get to know each of the investigators you left in no mind what it is you are watching, not as many recent dramas have become soaps. If I'm watching a crime program I'm not that interested in who is sleeping with who unless it relevant to the storyline, luckily the writers don't have to falll back such lazy writting.
The cases they are involved are gritty & sometimes disturbing when they are finished you are left wanting more. When this was first aired I missed it I got this from Amazon because it was going cheap but had i known about it before I would have paid full price to see it again.
