I enjoy watching detective series from the UK, Australia and New Zealand to avoid all the melodrama that the majority of USA detective series feel they have to add to make the show watchable. I always though that these countries contribution to the detective genre involved great detecting techniques and cops that were very capable of working out the evidence in a case (Luther, Shetland, The Fall, River, DCI Banks, Inspector Morris, Inspector George Gently, Prime Suspect, Death in Paradise, Foyle's War Endeavor, Inspector Lewis, Hinterland, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Brokenwood Mysteries, etc.).
Well Scott and Bailey changed this perspective for me. This is a show about a group of detectives (made up primarily of women) in the Manchester Major crime unit that involve themselves in more questionable behavior then I would think is acceptable. By my count, they caused, through their negligence, ignorance, and dealing with personal problems, the death of more then 4 people and the screwing over of several of their policing peers. Actually in a pair of episodes DCI Gill admits as much during her kidnapping.
I found myself fast forwarding through the personal stuff and most of the time they spend outside of the police offices smoking which is, in hindsight, a lot.
OK to watch if there is nothing else on the TV but otherwise not a killer UK series like the ones mentioned above.
Well Scott and Bailey changed this perspective for me. This is a show about a group of detectives (made up primarily of women) in the Manchester Major crime unit that involve themselves in more questionable behavior then I would think is acceptable. By my count, they caused, through their negligence, ignorance, and dealing with personal problems, the death of more then 4 people and the screwing over of several of their policing peers. Actually in a pair of episodes DCI Gill admits as much during her kidnapping.
I found myself fast forwarding through the personal stuff and most of the time they spend outside of the police offices smoking which is, in hindsight, a lot.
OK to watch if there is nothing else on the TV but otherwise not a killer UK series like the ones mentioned above.