I never watched this show because Douglas Henshall (Jimmy Perez) has all the personality of a dried up Winnie the Poo. So I started watching this season because of Ashley Jensen. She was great on Extras with Ricky Gervais. She can be humorous or witty, and serious too. She has a bright personality.
Unfortunately on this show, they wrote her as someone who grew up in Shetland, and hated it. The people that remember her do not like her much either. The Bain family refers to her as a tramp. The only guy that likes her is a local drug dealer who wants to jump into her pants. Jensen and this show do not feel like a good match, only because of how her character is written.
As I was slowly realizing I did not like this version of Shetland any more than the Jimmy Perez version, they throw in a totally disappointing twist. The uncle of Ellen, the girl that got killed, found the stolen money. The Bain's need to pay for farm equipment, and Uncle Bain finds a bag full of cash. I thought he was going to go pay the farm bills. Instead, he looks up the two Shetland drug dealers, so he can offer them the bag of cash as a buy in to become a drug dealer too.
That was it for me. The sour personalities, the dreary story, and the general wretchedness was tough, but when a dead girl's uncle uses the dead girl's money to buy into the drug trade, it is just gone too far into the muck for me.
Unfortunately on this show, they wrote her as someone who grew up in Shetland, and hated it. The people that remember her do not like her much either. The Bain family refers to her as a tramp. The only guy that likes her is a local drug dealer who wants to jump into her pants. Jensen and this show do not feel like a good match, only because of how her character is written.
As I was slowly realizing I did not like this version of Shetland any more than the Jimmy Perez version, they throw in a totally disappointing twist. The uncle of Ellen, the girl that got killed, found the stolen money. The Bain's need to pay for farm equipment, and Uncle Bain finds a bag full of cash. I thought he was going to go pay the farm bills. Instead, he looks up the two Shetland drug dealers, so he can offer them the bag of cash as a buy in to become a drug dealer too.
That was it for me. The sour personalities, the dreary story, and the general wretchedness was tough, but when a dead girl's uncle uses the dead girl's money to buy into the drug trade, it is just gone too far into the muck for me.
