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The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.
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- E1 Episode 1Next upAug 17, 2021 · 48 min · ★ 6.2
Synopsis
On her first day in the new role, Annika and the team are called in to solve the murder of a man found in the Clyde, a harpoon piercing his head. The investigation leads them to the victim's struggling boat business, where not everything is above board.
Guest stars: Kate Dickie (DCI Diane Oban), Saskia Ashdown (Sam Decosta), Caroline Guthrie (Isla Hendry), Gavin Jon Wright (Finlay Morris), Christy O'Donnell (Danny Hendry), Kirsty Strain (Trish Hendry), Apollo Konstantine (Dusanka), Anna Russell-Martin (Mandy Howson)
- E2 Episode 2Aug 24, 2021 · 48 min · ★ 5.8
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When a body is found on a boat in the Clyde, the case takes the team to the Isle of Bute. Evidence points to a jilted lover, but a darker secret emerges as the team investigate.
Guest stars: Imogen Mackie Walker (Sigi Gunderson), Kate Dickie (DCI Diane Oban), Hannah Donaldson (Ms Hill), Tam Dean Burn (PS Tam Glenn), Marnie Baxter (Karina Williams), Gerry Lynch (Grant Kidd), Christopher Dane (Per Gunderson), Shauna Macdonald (Liz Dunbar)
- E3 Episode 3Aug 31, 2021 · 48 min · ★ 6.0
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When the body of a scientist is found in Loch Katrine, Annika is reminded of Ibsen's Enemy of the People. But with so many wanting him dead, which one did he push over the edge?
Guest stars: Saskia Ashdown (Sam Decosta), Kim Allan (Heidi Greenshields), Moyo Akandé (Mel Hetherington), Martin Bell (Stuart Straney), Lewis Howden (Rab Sterling), Paul McCole (Mitch McAskill), Sahil Arora (Nathan Anderson), Dyfan Dwyfor (Neil Kelly)
- E4 Episode 4Sep 7, 2021 · 46 min · ★ 5.6
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The team are called in when writer Cara Gibson is found dead under a bridge. Her books ruined careers and left a lot of lives in tatters, but which of these people would be driven to murder?
Guest stars: Paul McGann (Jake Strathearn), Andy Clark (Adie McAndrews), Gavin Mitchell (Lachie Nevin), Michael Abubakar (Graham Kennedy), Shyvonne Ahmmad (PC Ash Majee), Millicent Wong (Ming Mei Zhao), Aisha Toussaint (Evelyn Bailie), Robert Jack (Fraser Clanahan)
- E5 Episode 5Sep 14, 2021 · 46 min · ★ 6.2
Synopsis
Annika and the team are tasked with solving the death of a man 'everybody loved', who was thrown in the river from a party boat.
Guest stars: Paul McGann (Jake Strathearn), Jade Chan (Erin Ferguson), Hilary Maclean (Gaynor Gilbride), Anita Vettesse (Carmela MacGowan), Mel Raido (Agamemnon 'Mem 'Yiannopoulos), Christian Ortega (Gio MacGowan), Naomi Stirrat (Louise Paterson), Martin Quinn (Syd)
- E6 Episode 6Sep 21, 2021 · 46 min · ★ 5.8
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A young woman murdered on the Glasgow docks hits the team hard when Michael's brother is named as the next of kin.
Guest stars: Kate Dickie (DCI Diane Oban), Andy Clark (Adie McAndrews), Sophie Sloan (Maddie McAndrews), Iulia Isar (Kate Verdi), Taqi Nazeer (Gurpreet Mattu), Susannah Laing (Taylor Mackie), Thoren Ferguson (Lee Tanner), Vivien Taylor (Leila)
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Created by Nick Walker
Nicola Walker
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Peter McGinnSep 23, 2021
The punch line is that I enjoyed the show and would recommend you give it a try, a few episodes to better appreciate it. I saw a lot of one-star reviews on this show. Usually that signals unhappiness due to racism or anger at having diversity in characters after 70 years of all straight white men all the time, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So I will address a few of the complaints. Tired of detectives with messy personal lives and especially stroppy teena… Read more
gers. Okay, I will admit I was pleased with the Rowan Atkinson version of Maigret because Finally a detective had a good marriage. But as for this show, I wonder how many of the reviewers who pointed that out were a bit stroppy themselves as teenagers? Plus if they had watched more than one show or part of one show, they would have seen realistic slow growth in the character and their damaged relationship. If anything, I think Annika’s team is a bit stroppy, and the series works on that, also. Some also didn’t like her talking directly to the camera. I will make another admission that I became tired of this technique in Atypical, the only little thing that bothered me on that great program, but I don’t mind it in this show. It brings out Annika’s witty side and illustrates she is well read. And I loved how they used it late in the final episode. Others moaned about weak plots and dialogue, etc., but I didn’t see that. Now I think it might have benefited from being 90 minutes. The cases wrap up almost hastily sometimes in the hour format. A lot of shows develop one case all season long. Some people seemed to want Nicola Walker to reprise her role from Unforgotten, but that is too silly to comment on. Others liked some original radio version and were fixated on that. (I believe the tv version was adapted by the same guy, so what’s up with that?) As a side note, I usually do okay with Scottish accents, but at times characters talked fast or mumbled and I had a little trouble. My version had no captions for some reason. So, yeah, I enjoyed the show and hope they renew it.
MovieGuysSep 3, 2023
Annika is a touch above the usual conveyor belt, crime drama's we have come to expect from the UK. The key to its success, is its not afraid to be intelligent and witty. The key character often launches into what the world of drama call, asides. A dramatic technique, often associated with Shakespearean productions, where a character steps outside of the play and addresses the audience, directly. Its interesting to see this technique utilised in this context and oddly, it w… Read more
orks. That's because Annika typically has something engaging, to say. By contrast, the crimes Annika and her team solve, are fairly pedestrian. Its a shame they could not have come up with intelligent tales to match the well crafted, characterisations. While we are on the subject, why is it almost every episode, the criminal or an accomplice, tries to run away? The other downside is the predictable woke-ness, on display. Its understandable people find it tiresome. I, for one, have no issues with alternative life styles, etc but its not even remotely, representative of life for most people. Why incessantly try to pretend, it is? In summary, a better than average UK crime drama that would have been better again, had the crime tales, been as ably rendered, as the characterisations.
cozymysteryfanNov 8, 2025
This was my second show with this actress as the main character and I spent a lot of the first season wondering if she has a vibe she’s typecast in. And I am not usually one for the breaking of the fourth wall in this way, but it grew on me by the end of the third episode. I definitely wish there was more.
