MARCELLA: SEASON 3

★★★★

OUT JANUARY TBC (ITV) / EPISODES VIEWED 8 OF 8 SHOWRUNNER Hans Rosenfeldt CAST Anna Friel, Aaron Mccusker, Amanda Burton, Ray Panthaki

Following the deranged Season 2 finale in which Marcella faked her own death, the third season of Hans Rosenfeldt’s Londonset Scandi noir changes both set-up and setting entirely. We catch up with former DS Marcella Backland (a mesmerising Anna Friel) working undercover as part of the Maguire crime family in Belfast, having adopted the persona of hard-asnails operative Keira Devlin. It’s a startling yet effective shake-up of the formula, while maintaining the intricate plotting and unpredictable character beats of the first two years, delving deeper into Marcella’s fractured psyche as she attempts to take down the Maguires without losing herself in the process.