Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 | |||
| S2 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | |||||
| S3 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.5 | |||||
| S4 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | |
| S5 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.3 | |
| S6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 8.3 | 8.6 | |
| S7 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 7.9 | 8.1 | |
| S8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | |||||
| S9 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.8 |
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About
"Cold cases thawed by obsession and old grief"
A London police unit reopens decades-old unsolved cases, pairing a driven senior detective with a forensic psychologist and a small team of specialists who piece together fragments of old evidence to catch killers who thought they'd gotten away. The show mixes moody procedural digging with flashes into the past, using dramatized recreations to show how crimes actually happened. It's slower and more character-driven than a typical case-of-the-week series, leaning on tense interrogations, personality friction within the team, and a persistent melancholy about how long injustice can sit unresolved.
the interplay between a stubborn detective and his psychologist partner as they reconstruct buried crimes.
you want fast, tidy episodes rather than slow-burn psychological digging into old cases.
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