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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Mar 24, 2024 7:40:02 GMT
9pm tonight.
This crime drama stars Wunmi Mosaku as Riya, a London detective relocated to a small Yorkshire village for family reasons and frustrated at the unchallenging levels of police work.
But things are about to get interesting thanks to a missing girl, a disembowelled stag, an anti-fracking protest and the return of a figure from the village’s past. How these problems connect isn’t yet clear but it should be fun finding out.
A quirky crime drama with a bizarrely fun case to solve, and less formulaic than your standard maverick cop series.
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Post by kakewalk on Mar 24, 2024 12:55:53 GMT
Sounds good. I shall give this a whirl.
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Post by linseed on Mar 24, 2024 13:41:27 GMT
Yes I think I will too (already recording DiP).
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Post by Miranda on Mar 24, 2024 16:13:18 GMT
I'm a bit confused. The girl in the missing posters is not the girl in the pub who went missing, right?
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Post by Miranda on Mar 24, 2024 19:50:47 GMT
I watched the first one but didn't really take to it. It's trying a bit too hard to be creepy for me.
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Post by linseed on Mar 24, 2024 22:22:13 GMT
Ok, I watched the first episode, and I see it’s on again tomorrow. If I’m still as confused by the end of tomorrow I may give up, but will give it another episode.
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Post by vicky on Mar 26, 2024 8:47:04 GMT
I tried but won't bother to keep watching. Quite apart from its weirdness I found the dialogue very hard to keep track of...and it isn't because of the accent since I live in the north and am surrounded by similar accents. Even subtitles didn't help because the actors delivery was so fast that I couldn't read them before things had moved on.
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Post by kakewalk on Mar 26, 2024 10:31:05 GMT
I’m enjoying it. It reminds me rather of Wolf which was decidedly weird and utterly nuts! Agree it’s pretty complicated and we’ve decided to watch the rest of it tonight and tomorrow so we don’t lose the thread. Incidentally I’ve spotted three ex-Coronation St actors from the past so far!
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Post by Rufus Firefly on Mar 26, 2024 13:54:22 GMT
I’m enjoying it. It reminds me rather of Wolf which was decidedly weird and utterly nuts! Agree it’s pretty complicated and we’ve decided to watch the rest of it tonight and tomorrow so we don’t lose the thread. Incidentally I’ve spotted three ex-Coronation St actors from the past so far! Really? I didn't spot any but then again I haven't watched Cora in years...and I only watched the first episode of this. |
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Post by marion on Mar 26, 2024 17:04:31 GMT
It’s a bit like a police procedural/Twin Peaks hybrid to me. I quite like the police bit, especially the heroine although I am surprised a three bed in Wandsworth with a view of the Common (millions) would only buy her a two bed in Chadder Vale. But question:
Our heroine is a DI, so her boss must be at least a DCI. Would a tiny police station really have that level of staffing? And why do they keep portraying young male coppers as totally thick?
I don’t have any questions about the Twin Peaks side of things because I don’t know what’s going on! Quietly enjoying it though.
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Post by Miranda on Mar 26, 2024 17:35:11 GMT
I was wondering why they have two senior officers in such a small place. And only two lower rank officers, one of whom is probationary. Normally it would be the other way around? One sarge, two PCs and a probie. If a DI or above was needed cos of a murder, then one would come in from the nearest big town.
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Post by hoodylover on Mar 26, 2024 18:58:12 GMT
Sly reference to Broadchurch in episode 2. Andrew Buchan, who wrote Passenger, played Mark Latimer in Broadchurch. I normally love anything that David Threlfall is in, but I found the setting and tone of this thoroughly depressing. I’m currently watching Constellation on Apple TV+ which is also depressing the hell out of me. I’ve been having weird dreams, but I’m sticking with it in hopes that the ending will pull everything together, satisfactorily.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Mar 26, 2024 19:47:37 GMT
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Post by goodhelenstar on Mar 26, 2024 20:26:46 GMT
Over on the DS they're comparing it to all sorts of shows, the common denominator of which is 'odd', 'quirky'. I've remembered that what it mostly reminds me of is Stag, which was on the BBC a few years ago and took place in the Scottish Highlands.
Regarding police ranks, I don't think writers on the whole have a clue what the different ranks actually do. Is Riya's boss a DCI? There's no way she would be based in a one-horse town so perhaps she was passing through because of the missing girl that, bizarrely, Riya is not being allowed to investigate. That's her job, surely? The only show I can think of that pays any attention to police procedure is Line of Duty, and even that went too far in the opposite direction with its obsession with terminology.
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Post by marion on Mar 27, 2024 9:09:03 GMT
Yes, I think it is funny Riya isn’t allowed to investigate a serious crime but is put to work on the missing bins. Say what now? Missing bins??? They don’t even investigate a lot of house burglaries these days, let alone bins and let alone by a DI! Surely there is a council bin replacement hotline or similar. And Riya can’t do anything big because that’s for Manchester CID? where are they then? Did they even come down to look for the Swedish girl?
Maybe Chadder Vale is actually Brigadoon.
Its nice to see Sister Frances from Call The Midwife as the young PC.
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Anymore to come?
