YMMV / Jack Taylor

• Adorkable: Cody has a certain awkward charm to his character, stemming from his role as the assistant to Jack, and his enthusiasm for his job.
• Complete Monster:
  • "The Guards": Trevor Lanpert is a prominent businessman in Galway, Ireland, who uses his ownership of the "Planters" facility to prey on the teenage girls who work there, having his subordinate Ford spy on the employees. Lanpert's modus operandi involves intoxicating the girls, then drowning them in his bathtub and recording their demises, labeling the recordings by the name and age of the victims. Subsequently, Lanpert tries to frame the deaths as suicides, attracting the suspicion of former Garda turned Private Eye Jack Taylor, who investigates the matter. Buying the silence of Jack's friend Sutton, Lanpert is eventually revealed to have been a child predator back when he was an Arms Dealer in Kosovo.
  • "The Dramatist": Professor Eugene Gorman, referring to himself as "The Dramatist", is a bitter misogynist obsessed with murder and theatrics. Enlisting the services of Private Eye Jack Taylor after pushing his first victim from a roof, Gorman frames a fellow professor for his next murder to throw suspicion off of himself. When confronted by Jack over withholding information, Gorman reveals his disdain for Jack due to a sexual encounter with Gorman's wife, subsequently taunting Jack about his suspicions. Targeting Kate Noonan, Jack's ally in the Garda, and revealing he murdered his own wife, Gorman forces Kate to choose who lives, between her superior and Jack. After killing the Garda superior, and after Jack survives Gorman's attempt to have him killed, Gorman forces Jack to re-enact a scene from Deirdre of the Sorrows at gunpoint.