Marcella (with a hard 'ch' rather than a soft 's' sound), is a murder squad detective who has taken a long career break to raise her children, but now finds herself abandoned by her husband and compelled back to work on her old unsolved case of - what else - a serial killer. Anna Friel has a serious line in angsty, gutsy ladies and she gives it her all here. Every modern detective needs a quirk, it seems, and Marcella's is that she loses her temper and blacks out. Not a great trait for a cop, we think, but then the team behind this were responsible for 'The Bridge. The autism spectrum was used to great effect in the character of Saga, and in today's supposedly touchy-feely police force, that's an equally unlikely asset for a detective.
It's nasty and not particularly new, but may shape up, and if Ms Friel's particular brand of angsty, gutsy character makes you reach for the remote, there is a more than decent supporting cast to distract you.
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