Annika- Alibi TV another Nicola Walker series
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https://alibi.uktv.co.uk/shows/annika/
Essentially TV version of Radio 4 Annika Stranded, which I haven'tĺ previously heard, about a new DI Annika Strandhed in a specialist investigation unit, more of that later. Fair bit of breaking the 4th wall as Walker speaks direct to audience usually with some quirky gag or pun on events. Imagine a female version of nonners, yep grates a bit.
Will give it a go, maybe one more episode, however at the risk of accusations of rivet counting, a DI in a new Scottish specialist unit, in a swanky fancy pants new unit HQ building, right on the waterfront dedicated exclusively to solving cases involving Marine Homicides and errr not much else. OK maybe that's where our £2,200 extra per head of funding due to Barnett formula goes. Plus a DI who appears to commute to work, and take her daughter to school btw, in what looks very much like a Strathclyde police marine unit workboat. Again- OK we will ignore that.
We will see, but looks like one of those series with not much of a developing plot across the season but stand alone one hour slots that get the case magically solved in the last 7 minutes.
So not an instant fan, unlike Unforgotten, hooked from the very beginning.
Essentially TV version of Radio 4 Annika Stranded, which I haven'tĺ previously heard, about a new DI Annika Strandhed in a specialist investigation unit, more of that later. Fair bit of breaking the 4th wall as Walker speaks direct to audience usually with some quirky gag or pun on events. Imagine a female version of nonners, yep grates a bit.
Will give it a go, maybe one more episode, however at the risk of accusations of rivet counting, a DI in a new Scottish specialist unit, in a swanky fancy pants new unit HQ building, right on the waterfront dedicated exclusively to solving cases involving Marine Homicides and errr not much else. OK maybe that's where our £2,200 extra per head of funding due to Barnett formula goes. Plus a DI who appears to commute to work, and take her daughter to school btw, in what looks very much like a Strathclyde police marine unit workboat. Again- OK we will ignore that.
We will see, but looks like one of those series with not much of a developing plot across the season but stand alone one hour slots that get the case magically solved in the last 7 minutes.
So not an instant fan, unlike Unforgotten, hooked from the very beginning.
Guardian might have got the review of Clarkson's Farm a bit wrong but this more or less sums it up.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/...
Liked this bit "Like Brenda Blethyn’s Vera, Annika is a dowdy crime-solving supercop, but with the twist that she is also a Norwegian single mum. Walker gives her character an accent that makes Annika sound like she’s from the southern part of Norway locals call Bethnal Green."
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/...
Liked this bit "Like Brenda Blethyn’s Vera, Annika is a dowdy crime-solving supercop, but with the twist that she is also a Norwegian single mum. Walker gives her character an accent that makes Annika sound like she’s from the southern part of Norway locals call Bethnal Green."
FiF said:
Guardian might have got the review of Clarkson's Farm a bit wrong but this more or less sums it up.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/...
Liked this bit "Like Brenda Blethyn’s Vera, Annika is a dowdy crime-solving supercop, but with the twist that she is also a Norwegian single mum. Walker gives her character an accent that makes Annika sound like she’s from the southern part of Norway locals call Bethnal Green."
"Annika" says, near the end of episode 1, that she went to school in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/...
Liked this bit "Like Brenda Blethyn’s Vera, Annika is a dowdy crime-solving supercop, but with the twist that she is also a Norwegian single mum. Walker gives her character an accent that makes Annika sound like she’s from the southern part of Norway locals call Bethnal Green."
I'd say it looks like the A821. Ep.3 has a murder at Loch Katrine which is up that road.
The new HQ is the Greenock theatre, which is ironic as the ACTUAL police station is just behind that! And the real police divers practice there often. Well, I assume it's practice, unless there really are that many marine murders there
The new HQ is the Greenock theatre, which is ironic as the ACTUAL police station is just behind that! And the real police divers practice there often. Well, I assume it's practice, unless there really are that many marine murders there
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