‘Hard Sun’ Review: ‘Luther’ Creator’s Hard-Boiled Hulu Series Is Full of Hot Air

“Hard Sun” offers a premise as high in the sky as the glowing orb itself, but has no idea what to do with it.

Two British detectives discover that the world is coming to an end and have to choose between trusting their government and making it public.

That’s Episode 1.

In Episode 2… well, to say what happens in the second episode would get into spoilers territory, even though the second hour of Neil Cross’ half-baked co-production between Hulu and the BBC is much more representative of what the show is and what it gets wrong.Even in a traditional-sized British season and truncated American one — six episodes — the gritty crime drama bounces around within a hollow sci-fi story, mixing conventional elements of a police procedural with a more serialized narrative about an exploding sun.

Very little of it works, be it the half-assed intermediary cases that barely hold up

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