An 8.5 IMDB...
Catherine is a no-nonsense police sergeant who heads up a team of officers in a rural Yorkshire valley. When a staged kidnapping spirals out of control turning into a brutal series of crimes, Catherine finds herself involved in something significantly bigger than her rank, but unknowingly close to home....
It's very well cast and well crafted; with a lot of well designed suspense, as seemingly unconnected threads gradually come together...
It's also a BBC series, which makes it more of a "mini-series" than an actual series... (Two series with only six episodes each; we just finished watching the first one)
The only draw-back is that veteran BBC actress Sarah Lancashire who plays the lead, (and when I say "veteran" I do mean "veteran"...among many other BBC credits she was on Coronation Street for 13 years: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484104/?ref_=tt_cl_t1)
plays the role with such a thick Yorkshire working-class accent, that when she talks fast it's nearly impossible to understand what she's saying...she might as well be speaking Chinese...
I understand the value of "realism" (and afterall the story is set in Yorkshire) and most of the other actors and actresses use the Yorkshire/Northern accent...
Though not to the point that their lines are unintelligible to the degree that Lancashire's frequently are...
She could have toned it down a bit...
(At the very least when she went into that mode they could have thrown in some sub-titles for the benefit of English speaking viewers...
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