What I Watched -- Touching Evil, Series 2 and 3

Our intrepid detective carries on through the second and third seasons (or series, if you're a Brit) of Touching Evil, rushing around England solving some nasty crimes.

Robson Green continues in his role as Dave Creegan, our favorite troubled-but-good-guy cop. He works in the Organised and Serial Crimes Unit, which means he and his partners are responsible for solving some of the grittier crimes around the country. His personal life - which had already fallen apart when we met him in season one - comes to a screeching halt when he has to send his ex-wife and kids away under the British version of the witness protection program after some of the past cases he worked on come back to haunt them. This leaves him a total wreck. At work, he's toeing the line between genius and madness. In his personal life, he gets through the rest of the seasons with the help of a couple of bad choices, as relationships go. But hey, who hasn't been there? That's why we like him.

As for the show, it continues its trend of unsatisfying conclusions - or total lack of conclusions - but in a good way. I'm pretty sure, though, that there was an unexpected cancellation at the end of the third season, because they didn't try to cram the ends of any storylines into the last show; it ended without real resolution, just like any other episode. That's fitting, though, for a show that always made you work to figure out what the heck was going on in the first place. It leaves you working to figure out what's going to happen next.