"Shetland" Dead Water: Part 1 (TV Episode 2014) Poster

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7/10
A good start.
Sleepin_Dragon19 August 2021
An old friend of Perez's arrives home from London, but the journalist's visit ends in tragedy.

A solid start to this two part story, it's a pretty deep and engaging watch, it develops well, but don't expect any fast pace here, it ambles along, it is quite slow.

Douglas Henshall is great, are the whole cast, very hard to escape the star quality of David Hayman though, not in it a huge deal, but when he is, he's awesome.

I'm not criticising, but I did need subtitles on for parts of it, not sure if some of the sound was a little muffled, or if some of the accents were a little too thick for my ear.

7/10.
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4/10
SERIOUSLY Dropped the Ball
Warin_West-El23 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Compared to Black Raven and Blue Lightning, this story seriously dropped the ball. There is more extraneous filler in this episode.

We don't need to see EVERY detail of the wedding. I fast-forwarded through the wedding dress scene.

And here's a real CLUNKER moment: DI Jimmy Perez and DS Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh enter a house filled with patches of blood and Alison says, "Could have been a robbery."

Unlike the other episodes, this one depicts everyone as stupid. Or in DI Perez's case, too emotionally involved. And the overly dramatic ending where Perez takes a measured beat before saying, "Cancel your flight." Came off as formulaic and trite.

I hope part 2 is better.
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