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- 2013
- TV-14
- BBC One
- 2013
- TV-14
- BBC One
Summary The Scottish crime series based on the novels of Ann Cleeves focuses on DI Jimmy Pérez (Douglas Henshall) [and later DI Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen)] and the team as they solve cases in the Shetland Isles. [Premieres originally in the UK on BBC One and in the US on BritBox (since 2018)]
- 2013
- TV-14
- BBC One
- 2013
- TV-14
- BBC One
Shetland
9 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 10, 2013
70
User Score
Generally Favorable
6.3
Summary The Scottish crime series based on the novels of Ann Cleeves focuses on DI Jimmy Pérez (Douglas Henshall) [and later DI Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen)] and the team as they solve cases in the Shetland Isles. [Premieres originally in the UK on BBC One and in the US on BritBox (since 2018)]
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
No messing about here, no flashbacks or mysteries, just confident and efficient storytelling. There is also the strange mix of serious crime and comedy that the drama just about manages to pull off.
Her character [Ashley Jensen as Ruth] arrived fully formed and well-rounded. Her expressive face revealed conflicted feelings about this enforced homecoming. The script wasn't afraid to make Calder prickly and unlikeable, with a tangled private life and troubled childhood.
As Calder, Ashley Jensen already looks like a viable replacement for Henshall.
This Ann Cleeves adaptation is a high-class police procedural – subtle, unshowy but hauntingly powerful and highly atmospheric. With its bleakly beautiful setting, meaningful stares and slow-burning plots, it’s Nordic noir transplanted to the Scottish archipelago’s rugged landscape.
His [Douglas Henshall's] replacement gives “Shetland” something of a reset, while retaining the small ensemble and much of what makes the show work.
Hello, DI Dour. Jensen is a talented actress with an expressive face, though, and she created the sense that behind the sullenness lurks a complex, damaged person.
Perez huffed his way through the investigation and the episode eventually ended with a cliffhanger. But at the end of a laboured hour of sleuthing, it wasn’t enough to rescue a disappointing episode.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
75% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
6.3
75% Positive
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Production Company:
- ITV Studios
- Silverprint Pictures
- BBC Scotland
Initial Release Date: Mar 10, 2013
Number of seasons: 9 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
BAFTA Awards, Scotland
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
British Society of Cinematographers
• 2 Nominations
Royal Television Society, UK
• 1 Nomination
