Other reviewers seem to have missed the point of this series.
This is the story of an incompetent female policewoman who has been promoted above her level of capability to maintain the quota of females in senior positions. Her boss, being also female, has ensured that a woman, any woman, wins a DCI position, even though an eminently capable male, DCS McAndrew, wants the job. In the "water police", somewhere between Glasgow and Norway, Annika is out of her depth, spending more time looking for a male partner and mothering her teenage brat than doing her job. This part is true to life.
Annika clearly has mental issues as she often talks to people who aren't there, in stumbling part-sentences. She only makes an arrest if the perpetrator is male and her team has made up for her lack of ability.
The team, of course, consists of the usual multi-ethnic, multi-sexual people, just as the real water police are (NOT).
Nicola Walker plays the only part that she can play: Nicola Walker, an actor with a limited range. She stands out from the rest of the cast in being generally intelligible. The rest mumble in some Nordic / Celtic dialect that really should have subtitles.
"Wake in Fright" was a ground-breaking film of the 1970s, bringing jarring realism to the screen. This woke nonsense is typical of the drivel being dished out around the world these days in the guise of entertainment. Three episodes is all that I could stomach. All the stars that I have given are to the producers for raising the issue of how unfairly males are treated in promotion contests.
This is the story of an incompetent female policewoman who has been promoted above her level of capability to maintain the quota of females in senior positions. Her boss, being also female, has ensured that a woman, any woman, wins a DCI position, even though an eminently capable male, DCS McAndrew, wants the job. In the "water police", somewhere between Glasgow and Norway, Annika is out of her depth, spending more time looking for a male partner and mothering her teenage brat than doing her job. This part is true to life.
Annika clearly has mental issues as she often talks to people who aren't there, in stumbling part-sentences. She only makes an arrest if the perpetrator is male and her team has made up for her lack of ability.
The team, of course, consists of the usual multi-ethnic, multi-sexual people, just as the real water police are (NOT).
Nicola Walker plays the only part that she can play: Nicola Walker, an actor with a limited range. She stands out from the rest of the cast in being generally intelligible. The rest mumble in some Nordic / Celtic dialect that really should have subtitles.
"Wake in Fright" was a ground-breaking film of the 1970s, bringing jarring realism to the screen. This woke nonsense is typical of the drivel being dished out around the world these days in the guise of entertainment. Three episodes is all that I could stomach. All the stars that I have given are to the producers for raising the issue of how unfairly males are treated in promotion contests.