It is set in a small town in England where everyone knows everyone else, except the mean new detective. The town finds an eleven year old boy on the beach who has been strangled to death.
One of the lead detectives on the case has a son who is the dead child's best friend. This is a good cause for a lot of conflict. It seems like everyone she knows is a suspect, the least of which is the child's father.
While this show was a little slow to start it picked up until we watched the last four episodes in one evening. I found it odd it only had eight episodes, so I reached out to my cousins wife asking her why English shows tended to have less episodes than American ones.
She wasn't sure, but a friend of hers suggested that English people will 'quit while they are a head' instead of the American way, where we suck every last ounce of profit out of something until the audience is so sick of it they will never watch it again. I had to laugh at this, knowing she is very likely right.
I loved how this was set in England because it made me feel that even though I was slovenly watching hours of television, I was also having a cultural experience. It is so strange how we speak the same language, yet there are times when I have no idea what they are saying.
Plus, I loved how the main character was a mom in her 40's with a pot belly. She looked like a real person, not some over made up model. It was refreshing.
This show is definitely worth your time so check it out.
(Photo from IMDB.com)
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