The Bay didn t waste any time in chucking Lisa (Morven Christie), Med (Taheen Modak), Manning (Daniel Ryan) and co in at the deep end.
Stephen Tompkinson, who you would have expected to stick around for a while, only appeared in the drama s opening episode for just over four minutes before his character, also called Stephen, was killed in cold blood.
It s been almost two years since our last trip to Morecambe, but all is forgiven following that staggering premiere. ITV
With five episodes to go, the brain (or brains) behind Stephen s execution is currently unknown, but we ve been doing some detective work of our own to try and deduce who the guilty party is.
20 January 2021 • 10:00pm
Morven Christie returns in The Bay
Credit: ITV
ITV’s crime dramas can be a mixed bag – let us never speak of modern-day Van Der Valk again – and the first series of Morecambe-set
The Bay was so-so. It suffered from some silly plotting and inevitable comparisons to Broadchurch, but had the benefit of the talented Morven Christie as family liaison officer Lisa Armstrong. Writer Daragh Carville appears to have taken the criticism on board, because the set-up in this first episode of series two was sharply done and Lisa didn’t do anything career-threateningly stupid.
She was on her best behaviour, though. Demoted from DS to DC, she’s on probation and forced to play second fiddle to colleague Med (Taheen Modak), who has the emotional intelligence of a stick of rock.
Morven Christie stars in the drama January 21, 2021 - 10:26 GMT Francesca Shillcock The Bay: Viewers saying same thing about return of ITV Show
After two years since we last saw it on our screens,
The Bay finally returned for its highly-anticipated second series on Wednesday.
The ITV drama, which sees
Morven Christie play the lead role as former detective Lisa Armstrong, is set in the seaside town of Morecombe and sees tragedy strikes after a sudden murder.
And it seems that fans all had a similar reaction to watching the whodunnit, with many praising the gritty first episode. Taking to social media, one person wrote: So glad #TheBay is back. Only thing better than a gritty crime drama is when it s set somewhere you know.
The Bay
9pm, ITV
Morven Christie reprises her role as the police family liaison officer DS Lisa Armstrong in series two of this pulpy crime thriller, set in Morecambe. We open with Armstrong living through the repercussions of deleting CCTV footage last season and being forced to work under DC Med Kharim (Taheen Modak), until a new murder investigation comes up and she has the chance to redeem herself. Yet, with tensions running high among her team, Armstrong and her family begin being stalked by a shadowy figure from her past.
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