SummaryRecent widower and poet, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) investigates crimes in mid-1970s England in this series based on the novels by P.D. James.
SummaryRecent widower and poet, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) investigates crimes in mid-1970s England in this series based on the novels by P.D. James.
If you’re going to watch Dalgliesh—and really, I hope you do—put down your phone. Put down your phone, turn your subtitles on, and let yourself fall under the spell of television that trusts you to actually watch.
For all their intrinsic power, these images of sudden horror are mere details compared with the storytelling that brings this series to roaring life (the script was written by Helen Edmundson).
Bertie Carvel brings a quietly dashing tone of pensive authority to this multilayered and romantic character: a detective, widower, poet. [25 Oct - 7 Nov 2021, p.9]
If you like straightforward British procedurals based on classic characters, than Dalgliesh won’t disappoint. But there seems to be a lost opportunity to dive more into Dalgliesh’s interesting character, especially given who is playing the detective this time around.