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Post by AlanC on May 10, 2017 21:23:30 GMT -5
I have watched several of them and have just finished all three seasons of Shetland. It's about cops in the Shetland Islands. It's almost worth watching to hear them talk.
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Post by AlanC on May 10, 2017 21:44:48 GMT -5
Three seasons and the main cop hasn't shot anybody yet. No car chases either.
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Post by Marty on May 10, 2017 21:45:27 GMT -5
I have watched a few episodes of that one, pretty good.
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Post by frazer on May 10, 2017 21:46:47 GMT -5
Did you see Hinterland? It's set around the town where I lived for 5 years. You'll hear some nice Welsh accents. In fact it was first filmed entirely in Welsh. There were no murders while I was there, and it's nowhere near as bleak as this trailer suggests.
We've been watching some excellent Scandinavian series. Have you tried 'Trapped' or 'Occupied'? Fantastic stuff.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 5:17:13 GMT -5
Love British Television and their police shows. The Fall was terrific even if it starred an American as a Brit and takes place in Belfast. The one with Kellen Skarsgard, River, is very interesting. Luther with Idris Elba is very good. Shetland is in the queue. I could go on but Netflix calls!
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Post by millring on May 11, 2017 5:22:10 GMT -5
Did you see Hinterland? It's set around the town where I lived for 5 years. You'll hear some nice Welsh accents. In fact it was first filmed entirely in Welsh. There were no murders while I was there, and it's nowhere near as bleak as this trailer suggests. How do you get two whales in a car? Start in England and drive west. |
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Post by drlj on May 11, 2017 7:32:31 GMT -5
If there were as many murders in small towns as these shows portray, there would be no small towns in England and very few in Wales.
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Post by Marty on May 11, 2017 8:03:04 GMT -5
Kevin Watley in "The Brokers Man" really liked it.
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Post by Marshall on May 11, 2017 8:17:25 GMT -5
Three seasons and the main cop hasn't shot anybody yet. No car chases either. How about pony races? Any of those? (They're so cute ) |
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Post by onemansguitar on May 11, 2017 9:02:38 GMT -5
A hearty race are the Shetlanders. Thanks for the recommendation.
I absolutely loved Foyle's War (about an ace detective in Hastings during WWII and his plucky female driver.)
Another period piece worth seeing is Ripper Street, about a detective and his young forensic team whose progressive methods face a lot of official resistance in the late 1800s.
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Post by Russell Letson on May 11, 2017 10:08:12 GMT -5
There's another series based on novels by Ann Cleves, who devised Shetland: Vera, set in Northumberland, featuring a stout, grumpy, middle-aged DCI played by the wonderful Brenda Blethyn. The accents are as dense as those of the Shetlanders, and the plots are just as melancholy and lacking in explosions. Another north-country series (now in its final season) is Inspector George Gently, set in the Durham-to-Newcastle area in the late 1960s-1970. It's very much about the social changes bubbling in that period. Lots of old cars and period-appropriate hairstyles. The Twin Cities PBS outlet has run both Cleeves series in a Saturday-night slot and is currently repeating Vera.
C. has been reading some of Cleeves' novels (there are more than 30 in four series) and likes the writing a lot.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2017 13:11:36 GMT -5
If there were as many murders in small towns as these shows portray, there would be no small towns in England and very few in Wales. Easy. They used to be much bigger towns. On the same subject, Lucas Davenport and that Fuckin' Flowers have me very cautious about Minnesota. |
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Post by AlanC on May 11, 2017 15:57:19 GMT -5
I posit one Brit crime show and I get nine back. Not a bad return.
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Post by james on May 11, 2017 16:21:01 GMT -5
A show that has had good ratings and a warm critical reception recently is the police procedural, Line of Duty. The 4th series has recently finished and like its predecessors is good if you like that sort of thing (and can find it anywhere). It is quite bleak and grisly at times. www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/line_of_duty/s04 |
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Post by frazer on May 11, 2017 22:51:45 GMT -5
Yep. And there seem to be a lot of series based on stories of child murder or kidnap. I don't bother with that particular genre. The first series of Broadchurch was an exception. The highest murder rate is surely found in Midsommer, though! |
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Post by frazer on May 11, 2017 22:56:32 GMT -5
Did you see Hinterland? It's set around the town where I lived for 5 years. You'll hear some nice Welsh accents. In fact it was first filmed entirely in Welsh. There were no murders while I was there, and it's nowhere near as bleak as this trailer suggests. How do you get two whales in a car? Start in England and drive west. You're sorely testing the limits of our friendship there, John. For crimes against my country and the noble tradition of punning. Meanwhile, beware this suspicious figure roaming your Indiana countryside:  |
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Post by onemansguitar on May 12, 2017 0:41:48 GMT -5
I guess it is safe to say we aren't Kansas any more.
As to all those murders, it reminded me of Murder She Wrote, and the various comics who pointed out if they were on duty when a murder happened in their small town and that SAME mystery writer happened to be there for some cockamamie reason, she would be my #1 suspect.
But I am grateful for this thread and shall check out some of those these shows.
By the way, anyone watch Wallander? It was actually set in Sweden, the land of perpetual inner-self-turmoil, but it was a BBC production starring Kennith Branagh.
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Post by frazer on May 12, 2017 3:48:39 GMT -5
I gu By the way, anyone watch Wallander? It was actually set in Sweden, the land of perpetual inner-self-turmoil, but it was a BBC production starring Kennith Branagh. Yeah - not as good as the original I thought, much as I like Branagh. |
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Post by frazer on May 12, 2017 3:49:01 GMT -5
To be clear - Branagh's was a remake
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Post by onemansguitar on May 13, 2017 12:51:59 GMT -5
Yes, true. But it was made in Sweden and the thread is about UK shows. I guess it is available with subtitles?
My flatmate got very into French detective shows for a while, which he said made American ones seem really dumbed down. But what little I watched seemed like a soap opera to me, since it had a lot to do with which character was keeping secrets from other characters sort of relationship stuff.
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