Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Watching Shetland, by comparison, is nothing like watching Scotland (or, less often, England) try to qualify for the World Cup. Shetland, contrast, succeeds in giving its fans exactly what the best TV detective drama series usually do - a…
Everything about Shetland (BBC1) is so well-judged that it seems unfair to pick on one performance in particular. I have to, though: Douglas Henshall. Now in his fifth series as DI Jimmy Perez, Britain’s most northerly regional TV…
The surest way to work out who dun it, in a whodunit detective series like Shetland (returning to BBC2 for a second series), is to note any familiar-looking character actors who pop up early on in the investigation. BBC casting agents…
