Toby Stephens

Transposing the Lethal Weapon template to suburban west London, the rather too knowing Vexed teams Toby Stephens and Lucy Punch as mismatched, bickering detectives. The pace, be warned, is frantic to the point of being exhausting as writer Howard Overman takes the scattergun approach to gags and quips. Get past this, though, and Vexed is actually quite promising, largely because it works so hard to come up with original scenarios. The opener deals with murders related to a supermarket loyalty scheme.