This BBC Scottish crime series gives a lot, very quietly. A decade late, I have happily jumped on the bandwagon/slow-moving local ferry
The dream team: Shetland’s DI Jimmy Perez , DC Sandy Wilson and DS Alison McIntosh .The dream team: Shetland’s DI Jimmy Perez , DC Sandy Wilson and DS Alison McIntosh .in 2013 – and set mainly on that Scottish archipelago – “permanently dark, plagued by murder and with residents who communicate only by glaring”,the year after. It is anchored, at least for the first seven seasons, by DI Jimmy Perez – “a TV copper of rare nuance”,, “with no gimmick apart from the steady erosion of his will”.
Perez is played by Douglas Henshall, in a determinedly consistent wardrobe of jeans, knitted jumper and peacoat . He solves murders. These evolve from one-offs involving birdwatchers and inheritances in the early seasons to multi-episode conspiracies and corruption exposés with higher and higher stakes. Fishing is usually involved.
Shetland’s mainland is small and, notwithstanding rural life’s genuine tendencies to the gothic, extremely crime-ridden. In every case, Perez and his loyal sidekicks – the stoic DS Alison “Tosh” McIntosh and vaguely hopeless DC Sandy Wilson – inevitably cross swords with old flames, schoolmates, teachers, colleagues. No matter how resolutely solitary Perez keeps his life, he can’t stand apart from the tangles of his community.
Shetland’s treatment of violence and social horror generally tends to the matter-of-fact – unflinching but understated. Ann Cleeves, who wrote the novels it’s based on satiate my urge to move to a remote and foggy outcrop. The show has become a comfortable sort of furniture for my life – to joke about with my boyfriend , push unprompted on strangers, sling family conversations over.
“Is that possibly murderous dad golly from monarch of the glen???” I text a sister, interrupting a far more serious conversation with absolutely no other context. “Yes!!!!” she replies immediately. My dad likes the refreshingly unheroic characters, the familial bond between the central cast, the thoughtful escapism of the contained setting. My mum likes Perez . “He doesn’t judge people,” she muses, reflectively, over the phone. “He sees them but he doesn’t judge them.
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