Description: From Paula Milne, the multi-award winning writer of The Politician's Wife, comes this taut psychological thriller starring Clive Owen (Croupier, Closer) and Claire Skinner (Inspector Morse). Ross Tanner (Owen) is a hotshot police detective who lives for the thrill of the chase—while desperate to conceal a terrifying secret: he's losing his vision. Competitive graduate officer D.I. Catherine Tully (Skinner) is drafted into Tanner's crime unit to help investigate an apparently motiveless murder of a nineteen-year-old college student. Soon enough Catherine realized the nature of Tanner's dreadful secret and an uneasy alliance is formed between them. She will be his eyes, on certain conditions—terms which will enhance her career prospects. As Tanner's relationship with the world becomes increasingly fragile he learns that there is more to murder than meets the eye. Insight prevails over eyesight as he discovers that success and survival will depend on the use of all his senses. Special DVD features include: link to the Mystery! Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired. On one DVD9 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
Amazon.com: Taut, styish, and smart, Second Sight is the rare detective thriller with a brutal poetry in its premise. Detective Chief Inspector Ross Tanner (Clive Owen) is a maverick cop and workaholic who solves crimes by putting his faith in facts he can see for himself. What more cruel irony could beset him than a slow and irreversible loss of vision? While a rare disorder attacks his cornea, causing intermittent blindness and hallucinations, Tanner conceals his problem in the pursuit of a murderer who brutally beat a 19-year-old man to death. The suspects are largely people the victim knew well, including his mother (Phoebe Nicholls) and stepfather (Stuart Wilson), the nanny (Louise Atkins) of his young sister, a gardener (Eddie Marsan) who supplied him drugs, and an uncle (Stuart Wilson again, playing twins) who has allegedly been out of the country for years but in fact has been keeping a low profile in London. Tanner faces an added strain, initially, when he is partnered with a female detective, Catherine Tully (Claire Skinner), whose reliance on intuition is the antithesis of his own methods. Nevertheless, the two make a bargain after Skinner deduces Tanner's medical troubles: she'll be his eyes if he promises to give her equal credit for apprehending the killer. Utterly engrossing, Second Sight is part of that tradition of somber crime thriller done so well on British television, from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to Prime Suspect. Stars Claire Skinner (Sleepy Hollow) and Clive Owen carry the load exceptionally well. Owen (Closer, Bent), who looks like a slightly more rugged version of Kevin Costner and is instantly likable onscreen, conveys Tanner's necessary conversion to a more intuitive approach to police work with great care. Owen has looked like a candidate for international stardom for a while, and Second Sight certainly reinforces that perception. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - A Well-Done Series (but hide your Scoobie Snacks!)
This enjoyable mystery's strengths are commented on quite ably by the reader reviews on this site.
Permit me to point out two minor complaints which have not been brought up:
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Rating: - FANTASTIC CLIVE OWEN
This is a two part mystery show. Clive is head of the investigation of a murder. He is losing his sight and has to depend on his female partner to help him solve the crime.
He does not want to ... Read More
Rating: - Ophthalmically correct
All of the good things have been said: nuanced performance by Clive Owen and Claire Skinner, riveting mystery, charismatic and now rising star in USA, interesting rhythm and plot, similar tenor to Prime ... Read More
Rating: - Second Sight 1, Clive Owen 5
There is something about this guy I cannot put my finger on. He is not as pretty as Ewan McGregor or Jude Law but definitely more versatile than both combined. From Croupier to I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, ... Read More
Rating: - Clive Owen is Hot
It's a predictable mystery but it's well packaged and, as I said, Clive Owen is hot! There's some intensely erotic moments in this series that make it worth watching even though the average mystery fan will ... Read More
- A Well-Done Series (but hide your Scoobie Snacks!)
- FANTASTIC CLIVE OWEN
- Second Sight 1, Clive Owen 5