This angrily ambitious reset took on generational trauma, social inequality, austerity’s devastating impact – and pulled it all off masterfully. Roll on series six…
After the last season left 9.5 million of us weeping, the beguiling cop drama is back with no Nicola Walker and a testy new boss. Will Sunny heal while the team crack the case of the corpse up the chimney?
The Masterpiece Mystery! cold-case crime drama returns with lead detective Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) counting the days until retirement.
But the next day, when Cassie interviews him, Dean also has a flashback, to a violent incident of someone getting badly beaten. Talk about never knowing what someoneâs capable of! Dean at least admits to remembering Fogerty, but not much else about the night in question. He also had the shortest law enforcement career of the quartet, lasting just a few weeks on the job.
We also see two very different sides to Ram (Phaldut Sharma), the other senior police officer in the group. He puts the kibosh on the sexual misconduct case against him by recording his accuser using a racial slur â when he tries to bribe her! But later, after Ramâs wife admits she doesnât think she could handle raising a baby with Down syndrome, he confesses that he wouldnât want to end a life âbecause it wasnât the perceived idea of perfec