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Ridley
Aug 28, 2022 18:40:32 GMT
Post by bidiein on Aug 28, 2022 18:40:32 GMT
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Post by vicky on Aug 28, 2022 19:10:42 GMT
I will watch anything that has Adrian Dunbar in it. I would be happy just to listen to him reading the phone book😁
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 28, 2022 19:23:53 GMT
They're making quite a big deal of him singing in the show - Adrian Dunbar has had a band for years and is well known on the jazz circuit. Looking forward to hearing him in this.
Bronagh Waugh was in The Fall as Spector's (the villain) wife, and also in one of the series of Unforgotten as the twin sister of the victim. She's pretty good at accents. I'm just watching it now, and one of the characters is also in Shetland as (possibly) one of the suspects. They do get about!
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Ridley
Aug 28, 2022 19:56:02 GMT
Post by bidiein on Aug 28, 2022 19:56:02 GMT
It's enjoyable - some lovely scenery and properties but I suspect the big reveal has been very heavily flagged up... {SPOILER:Click to Show}
The daughter of the dead farmer is the girl who went missing 14 years earlier. The farmers own child died. He - or his wife - took a replacement. The obsessive privacy, home schooling, no vaccinations etc rings bells. |
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Ridley
Aug 28, 2022 20:42:34 GMT
Post by linseed on Aug 28, 2022 20:42:34 GMT
It’s looking that way Bidie. However it’s been an enjoyable Sunday watch.
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Post by bidiein on Aug 28, 2022 20:44:57 GMT
Yes, I like it. But the clues were too obvious, imo.
Not sure if it is based on books or not, but it certainly has potential.
(The jazz angle reminds me of the wonderful Jack Shepard - Wycliffe - who is also a gifted jazz pianist/saxophonist in real life. In one episode he and his team were based in a church hall, where there was a piano. Cue a brilliant piece of jazz music played to the amazement of his team of cops. And the admission that if he had not been a policeman he would like to have been Oscar Peterson. I love it when dramas include talents that the actors hold in real life. Jeeves & Wooster showcased Hugh Lawrie's considerable musical gifts as well as those of Stephen Fry in a number of scenes.)
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Ridley
Aug 28, 2022 22:14:07 GMT
Post by beatxt on Aug 28, 2022 22:14:07 GMT
Not bad. The Sunday Times described him as having a go in the Vera slot! It was darker though (I like the humour in Vera - specially with Malcolm). Why the need for his depressing back story? Why couldn't he just be a jazz club-owning/singing ex-detective in similar vein to the chef/restaurant-running Richard Griffiths in Pie in the Sky, who's so good he gets invited back to be a police consultant. And why were they so unspecific in suggesting where in Yorkshire it's supposed to be? He did quite a good job with the song at the end. Enough that I thought "that's by Richard Hawley" - who I have no particular interest in and I've probably only heard it once before.
Oh yeah... once you've had the thought that the female lead detective has something of the look of restaurant critic and popular culture pundit Grace Dent it's hard to forget!!  |
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Ridley
Aug 28, 2022 22:40:01 GMT
Post by sleepyp on Aug 28, 2022 22:40:01 GMT
Apparently filmed in various parts of rural Lancashire and Todmorden which has changed counties several times. I think it’s currently back in Yorkshire, and happy about it?
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 0:09:08 GMT
Post by cakewalk44 on Aug 29, 2022 0:09:08 GMT
They're making quite a big deal of him singing in the show - Adrian Dunbar has had a band for years and is well known on the jazz circuit. Looking forward to hearing him in this. Bronagh Waugh was in The Fall as Spector's (the villain) wife, and also in one of the series of Unforgotten as the twin sister of the victim. She's pretty good at accents. I'm just watching it now, and one of the characters is also in Shetland as (possibly) one of the suspects. They do get about! I also spotted the actor who played John Stape in Corrie! (Graham Hawley in real life). Haven't seen him lately. |
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Post by cakewalk44 on Aug 29, 2022 0:11:25 GMT
But yes, the inclusion of the singing in the role was wonderful. He has a very good voice. I gather the jazz club was his idea.
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 6:21:38 GMT
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 29, 2022 6:21:38 GMT
Yes I was getting Wycliffe flash backs, but the story was obvious from about half way through.
Not sure it needed to be played quite so grimly or that as others have said he needed such a dire back story.
He could just have been single or better yet have just had a nice wife and a couple of dogs/cats at home. A man who simply took early retirement alongside his wife to concentrate on his club.
Wycliffe was dark too, he always looked miserable with his life despite having a good one and we always got beautiful scenery but often in the mist, storms, rain and hale. The characters were always grim too.
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 9:04:56 GMT
Post by marion on Aug 29, 2022 9:04:56 GMT
I didn’t mind it at all. Love Adrian Dunbar although he was a bit muted in this. Like others I guessed the twist. I know bills are increasing but why the heck can’t people put the lights on!!! I found bits of it very dark, literally. I thought it was set in the Lake District at first but then wondered if it was Yorkshire. I didn’t hear an actual town mentioned. Good point about the back story. He could just have retired to run a club.
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 13:15:09 GMT
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Post by vicky on Aug 29, 2022 13:15:09 GMT
If only I hadn't watched The Capture first....
Because I had I thought this was a bit pedestrian and obvious in comparison.I guessed the twist early on and the script and storyline were rather clunky. Anyone else notice the continuity error? We went from the crime scene of the farmer's murder in the woods with no snow to the police asking questions in the village with snow on the ground, then back to no snow anywhere to be seen, all presumably on the same day. I wasn't quite sure where it was supposed to be set either with the combination of hills and sandy beach - Northumberland maybe? although the accents didn't fit. Not really a good enough vehicle for Adrian Dunbar imo.
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 18:00:45 GMT
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Post by beverley61 on Aug 29, 2022 18:00:45 GMT
Lancashire it said, which borders the Lake District
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Ridley
Aug 29, 2022 18:06:47 GMT
Post by hoodylover on Aug 29, 2022 18:06:47 GMT
I really enjoyed this. I must be one of the few people who’s never seen Line Of Duty. I guessed who the shooter was from very early on, but I didn’t deduce the other big reveal until I saw {SPOILER:Click to Show}the toy in the daughter’s bedroom . I thought the new Detective Inspector was very likeable and (I’m very glad to say) she doesn’t remind me of Grace Dent. I don’t mind the retired cop having a tragedy in his life. It might give him some empathy. It could also be setting us up for a mega meltdown later on. The time flew past. |
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