It’s the prehistoric police procedural you never knew you… didn’t need.

Now that the hoops set up for the story to jump through in the previous episode have been cleared, we have a new vital person/place/object we need to find. A scientist who, unbeknownst to anyone before, seems to have done what no-one else has.  Meaning he’s the key to… oh my goodness I can’t even pretend to make an effort, if the writers can’t either.

The clearing folk discover that they came this close to the Harris family preventing them from getting home, which might have escalated quickly, had a body not been found. It’s someone who we’ve only just met and don’t care about though so that’s OK. I’m not even going to start with the way Eve manages to distract a bear, I don’t know how to.

Now the lies start between people who have endured all kinds of trauma for each other, risked everything to find each other… thus clouding and undermining one of the few (dare I call it) ‘strengths’ of La Brea: the fact that the people are likeable, if not thrown haphazardly from plot point to plot point. It’s morbid fascination that drives my viewing at this point, that and the fact that I promised my Editor I’ll see this through, and I like him much more than these people.

Verdict: How did Eve get out of the cave though? How? HOW?! 2/10

Claire Smith