Sunday, 24th January 2021 at 9:00 am
TV loves a tortured detective. The more compelling, the more astute the sleuth at solving crimes, the murkier their past, and no detective seems more weighed down by emotional baggage than Anna Friel’s Marcella Backland. And we mean that as a compliment. Spurred on by distressing events in her personal life, and affixed with an impregnable intuition – while suffering from a disorder which brings on violent blackouts during times of intense stress – Marcella will stop at nothing until she’s cracked the case.
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ITV’s gripping crime drama from Nicola Larder and The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeld follows the eponymous detective, hot on the tail of a serial killer on the murder squad at London’s Edgware Road police station. As well as her demanding job, she has to contend with fractious family life including an adulterous (now ex) husband Jason (Nicholas Pinnock), using her disorder against her in an attempt to get full custody of their two children.