Diving in with a fresh angle
AN urgent coastguard call gets this latest crime drama off to a gripping start.
There’s a body tangled in a net, pulled from a fishing boat late at night –“something’s sticking in him”.
DI Annika Strandhed, brand new in her role heading up the marine homicide unit in Glasgow, is called to the scene. “Call me Annika,” she says, breaking the fourth wall. Annika, played by award-winning Nicola Walker, will allow viewers to be her confidante as she shares her thoughts, feelings and mostly terrible jokes, speaking directly to camera.
It’s a unique twist on the usual crime-thriller format, and brings some much-needed humour to the proceedings.
Based on a hit Radio 4 drama, this series follows Annika as she solves the puzzling crimes and unexplained murders that keep washing up on Scotland’s shores.
She must also balance managing a new team – she forgot to buy cupcakes, disaster – and raising her teenage daughter, Morgan, who is less than thrilled to have had to move schools.
On her first day on the job, Annika and the team are called to investigate the murder of a man found in the
Clyde, a harpoon piercing his head. The investigation leads them to the victim’s struggling boat business, where not everything is above board.
“Death by harpoon suggests someone who is trying to get a point across,” says Annika with a smirk to camera.
Enjoy watching Walker flex her comedy bones, and it’s an enjoyable, twisting plot too, as she cracks the case Columbo style.