Good news for the tourist industry in St Andrew’s, the photogenic Scottish university town previously made famous by a prince and an amateur catwalk model named Kate Middleton. Now it’s got its very own eponymous TV detective series – Karen Pirie. Just like in Bath, Oxford, Bristol, Jersey, Shetland and countless other real and semi-fictional picturesque locations with infeasibly high rates of homicide, soon visitors from all over the world will be able to come and see where celebrated decapitations, drownings and poisonings didn’t actually take place.
The first killing in this new venture splats onto our screens with the disembowelling of a barmaid, her body dumped in the grounds of the cathedral – about as shocking a femicide conceivable. Yet, by contrast, and unusually for a regional detective series, there is nothing unusual or idiosyncratic about its hero. The prosaically named Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle) is a young...
The first killing in this new venture splats onto our screens with the disembowelling of a barmaid, her body dumped in the grounds of the cathedral – about as shocking a femicide conceivable. Yet, by contrast, and unusually for a regional detective series, there is nothing unusual or idiosyncratic about its hero. The prosaically named Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle) is a young...
- 9/25/2022
- by Sean O'Grady
- The Independent - TV
The precariousness of life when you're relying on the gig economy is brought home by Laura Carreira's latest short. The Portuguese director is based in Edinburgh and this nine-minute drama is set in Scotland as Anna (Anna Russell-Martin) takes her dog for a walk to the local supermarket and then browses the shelves, looking for the cheapest stuff she can.
To say too much about how events unfold would be to do a disservice to the writer/director but her low-key approach to the situation brings home the way that even small things can push people over the edge, if they're already standing close to it. She has a keen eye for observation, including the way that people - in a pre-Covid world, at least - interact with each other in these shopping spaces, particularly around the discount section.
Russell-Martin - whose background is on stage, featuring in productions...
To say too much about how events unfold would be to do a disservice to the writer/director but her low-key approach to the situation brings home the way that even small things can push people over the edge, if they're already standing close to it. She has a keen eye for observation, including the way that people - in a pre-Covid world, at least - interact with each other in these shopping spaces, particularly around the discount section.
Russell-Martin - whose background is on stage, featuring in productions...
- 9/9/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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