Aidan Turner Tries His Best But You've Seen This Predictable 'Suspect' Before
Aidan Turner proved repeatedly during his time on the period drama Poldark that he could make the most stoic, closed-off leading man both appealing and sympathetic. Now that he’s finally left Nampara behind, he seems to be keen to branch out a bit as an actor, taking on a variety of diverse and wildly different roles in shows like The CW’s Leonardo, in which Turner plays an artistically tortured, emotionally stunted Leonardo da Vinci, and the new crime thriller The Suspect, in which he plays a questionably sane shrink who may or may not be a violent murderer but at least has some seriously luxurious facial hair.
(Questions I have that this show will never answer: How does he have time for this apparent level of beard maintenance, given the amount of dumb and/or shady activities he has to fit into his day?)
Turner is an appealing and capable actor, and he deserves better roles than this. I don’t know if it’s that he played a dwarf for Peter Jackson or if he has a handsome, kind face, but how does this man keep getting cast as some variety of potential murderer when there’s no one on the planet which appears to be able to look less like a killer?
