Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

jrnet154 I'm often asked what someone should watch. Well, if you're like me...you like a new world of wonder, a great story and being left with a "Wow"-feeling. I recommend this 3-episode miniseries to binge all at once.

portsoyboy This was frustrating. I've read a few of Phil Rickman's books, including a couple of the Merrily Watkins stories so I was predisposed to like this ITV version.There were lots of good things (creepy atmos,scary looking spirit, David Threlfall) but for me these were all outweighed by just how pathetic the lead character was. Don't get me wrong - I'm all for having a flawed lead character but there's a fine line between 'flawed' and 'utterly useless' and Anna Maxwell Martin's inappropriately named Merrily lands the wrong side of that line. Rubbish as a mother, evidently a poor wife, an unconvincing clergy, pill-popping, fag-smoking, heavy drinking car crash of a character, she blunders through each episode making a mess of every situation she finds herself in.I'm not suggesting she should be an ecclesiastical Jack Reacher but I just can't stay interested in a character with so few redeeming features. Shame.

rogerjmead Having read all the books & was expecting, if their author had anything to do with the production, characterisations close to the book, especially since they are described in detail, together with the humour and local feel for character that is amply explored in them. This production had nothing to do with that and was a poor representation of the story. Even if I had not read the books I would have been annoyed by the music drowning the speech and the central characters lifeless performance. She is much better in other things.ITV need to do better if they make further series from these books and need to involve the author, which I assume they did not do this time.

Leofwine_draca I've never actually read a Phil Rickman novel, although I have had one sitting on the shelf for years and years, but I'm a big fan of the supernatural mystery genre - slow-burning delights written by the likes of Barbara Erskine (a favourite) amongst others. I sat down to watch this ITV miniseries adaptation of one of his books to see what I was missing.Not a lot, as it transpires. MIDWINTER OF THE SPIRIT is a typically clichéd, cheap-feeling piece of ITV drama that doesn't have an original bone in its body. A cast of boring characters go through the paces in a story about a sinister conspiracy to attack the Church, but it's all so humdrum and irrelevant that you won't really care.I like Anna Maxwell Martin (TV's NORTH AND SOUTH) but her protagonist, Merrily Watkins, is dull, down-mouthed, and mean-spirited. Hardly the kind of character you can get behind and care about, then. The supporting cast includes familiar faces like Kate Dickie (PROMETHEUS) doing a boring cop routine, and David Threlfall (who constantly seems to be trying very hard to get away from his SHAMELESS character) but they're pretty much wasted. Some of the supernatural stuff, which is very limited in terms of screen time, hints at quality, but this is a far cry from stuff like BBC's APPARITIONS. Instead we get at least half the running time spent on boring mother/teenage daughter melodrama, stuff that belongs in a soap opera and not here.