Post by goodhelenstar on Mar 17, 2024 14:10:29 GMT
This started last night, anyone watching? It's an Irish / New Zealand detective series about a young Irish couple who go missing in New Zealand where they have been working after travelling for a while, and an Irish detective who has mysteriously and suddenly resigned from the force goes out because the missing woman is the daughter of a judge who has just put away a gangster whom he investigated. The judge is in New Zealand on holiday with her husband and so, it turns out, is the brother of the imprisoned gangster.
The other half of the detective duo is a local policewoman of Maori heritage who is sent to investigate as the disappearance occurs in her home town. She's estranged from her family and he is thousands of miles from home, and their back stories are gradually revealed.
It's all quite complicated and the focus in the first couple of episodes is more about them than the investigation. There's also an Irish journalist nosing around who has a past with the detective and with whom he is not on good terms.
I think I will binge. The dialogue is poor – lots of exposition and the two officers talking openly about the case in front of witnesses, but it's all very beautiful and the Maori characters go in and out of their native tongue which makes a change from Danish or Swedish!
The other half of the detective duo is a local policewoman of Maori heritage who is sent to investigate as the disappearance occurs in her home town. She's estranged from her family and he is thousands of miles from home, and their back stories are gradually revealed.
It's all quite complicated and the focus in the first couple of episodes is more about them than the investigation. There's also an Irish journalist nosing around who has a past with the detective and with whom he is not on good terms.
I think I will binge. The dialogue is poor – lots of exposition and the two officers talking openly about the case in front of witnesses, but it's all very beautiful and the Maori characters go in and out of their native tongue which makes a change from Danish or Swedish!
Anymore to come?
