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Irvine Welsh's Crime review: A joyless hour with a trans-friendly, nettle tea-drinking Rebus rip-off, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Here's a deadly drinking game, for anyone with craving police thrillers - watch Irvine Welsh 's Crime and take a slug of cheap whisky every time it rips off Rebus.

Here's a deadly drinking game, for anyone with an asbestos liver and a craving for gritty police thrillers — watch Irvine Welsh's Crime and take a slug of cheap whisky every time it rips off Rebus. Anyone with an asbestos liver and a craving for gritty police thrillers — watch Irvine Welsh 's (pictured) Crime and take a slug of cheap whisky every time it rips off Rebus Ken Stott (who once played Rebus) is the chief super, Laura Fraser is Lennox's therapist, and trans actress Rebecca Root is his formerly male police partner, now a college lecturer called Lauren.

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