November 2021

  • Guided by seagulls."We contributed to these islands! You're standing on her…"

    Shetland, Season six, episode six. The finale Note: Many, many spoilers. Do NOT read if you haven’t seen episode six of the show, or have any intention of watching it. Here we go! Tarquin, Struan, Farquhar, Jocelyn, Heathcliffe and all the Nivens including the Liberal Democrat. The dead lawyer and the dodgy consultant whose wife…

  • Sheep for goalposts! “I really want to know what the hell this adds up to…”

    Shetland, season six, episode five I recently binged the extraordinarily brutal, very funny, totally French and non-vegetarian series ParisPolice 1900 (recommended only for non-knitters; subtitles don’t work with Fair Isle purling). The necessity with Shetland of week-by-week watching makes a creakily crammed plot almost completely incomprehensible. This season is both extraordinarily stretched and full of…

  • 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?

    𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐱, 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝘚𝘗𝘖𝘐𝘓𝘌𝘙 𝘈𝘓𝘌𝘙𝘛! 𝘋𝘰 𝘕𝘖𝘛 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘝 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘱: 𝘈 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘑𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘻, 𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺-𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘈 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘯𝘶𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢…

  • “It’s TOO LATE! He’s been infected with…DRONE BLOOD!”

    Shetland, Season 6, episode 3 SPOILERS! Do not read if you’ve not seen episode three of Shetland and have no wish to be spoilt. And yes, I know it’s “just a story”. The shadow cast by STV’s Taggart over Scottish drama and indeed police TV fiction generally is longer than Rebus’s list of desirable Rory…