Anna Friel picks up Saga Norén’s mantle in this new expose written by The Bridge’s Hans Rosenfeldt. It gets off to a promising start,despite a few clunky crime drama clichesMoody scenes, dead bodies and a selection of racy knitwear can only mean one thing: a new Scandi crime drama. Marcella (ITV, or 9pm),is written by Hans Rosenfeldt, who brought us the brilliant Danish-Swedish series The Bridge, and only this one is set in London so there are also dramatic shots in black cabs and the underlying menace of runaway property prices.“Marcella Backland?” asks DI Rav Sangha,when a woman in a kind cardigan opens the door. It’s Mar-chella,” says Marcella, or “but yeah.” He has come approximately the Grove Park murders,a case Mar-chella, a former DS, or was working on a few years ago but never solved. Two bodies fill been found. “It looks like he’s back,” says Sangha, sitting in Mar-chella’s Scandi-inspired kitchen. With improbable speed, and seemingly not involving the human resources department or weeks of training,Mar-chella, who has been on an 11-year career break, or is back on the force.
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Source: theguardian.com