Review James Stansfield 12 Mar 2013 - 06:59
BBC crime two-parter Shetland reaches a hurried and uneventful conclusion. Here's James' review of the final instalment...
This review contains spoilers.
The opening hour of Shetland introduced its audience to a complex web of characters set amongst a tight-knit community in the splendid isolation of the Scottish isles wilderness. It closed with a second murder that set up a good deal of intrigue as it seemed unconnected to the first killing that had begun the show.
All that Shetland did well in part one though became its undoing during its second half. Having established this intricate pattern of character relationships between its feuding families and those surrounding central character, Douglas Henshall’s Detective Perez, the show found itself painted into a corner, having a bit too much to tie together for its concluding chapter.
In fact, for much of the first half of episode two,...
BBC crime two-parter Shetland reaches a hurried and uneventful conclusion. Here's James' review of the final instalment...
This review contains spoilers.
The opening hour of Shetland introduced its audience to a complex web of characters set amongst a tight-knit community in the splendid isolation of the Scottish isles wilderness. It closed with a second murder that set up a good deal of intrigue as it seemed unconnected to the first killing that had begun the show.
All that Shetland did well in part one though became its undoing during its second half. Having established this intricate pattern of character relationships between its feuding families and those surrounding central character, Douglas Henshall’s Detective Perez, the show found itself painted into a corner, having a bit too much to tie together for its concluding chapter.
In fact, for much of the first half of episode two,...
- 3/12/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Review James Stansfield 10 Mar 2013 - 22:00
Is new two-part BBC crime adaptation Shetland a friendlier version of The Killing? James checks out the first episode...
This review contains spoilers.
There’s more than a hint of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the Beeb’s latest stab at crime drama. Set about as close to Scandinavia as a British drama can get, Shetland uses the remoteness of its setting to convey the sense of community shattering that the Swedish screen version of Stieg Larsson's debut novel did too. Ultimately Shetland isn’t as dark as anything that has filtered its way down from our friends in the North, this is primetime BBC One, not Four after all but its opening half made for an entertaining and likeable hour of television.
Things begin with an elderly Mima Wilson rummaging through her old photos when a strange noise draws her out of her middle-of-nowhere house,...
Is new two-part BBC crime adaptation Shetland a friendlier version of The Killing? James checks out the first episode...
This review contains spoilers.
There’s more than a hint of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the Beeb’s latest stab at crime drama. Set about as close to Scandinavia as a British drama can get, Shetland uses the remoteness of its setting to convey the sense of community shattering that the Swedish screen version of Stieg Larsson's debut novel did too. Ultimately Shetland isn’t as dark as anything that has filtered its way down from our friends in the North, this is primetime BBC One, not Four after all but its opening half made for an entertaining and likeable hour of television.
Things begin with an elderly Mima Wilson rummaging through her old photos when a strange noise draws her out of her middle-of-nowhere house,...
- 3/10/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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