David Tennant is Sarah Lund! Now that is how the ITV should have advertised its new crime drama Broadchurch, because all concerned have certainly been brushing up on their Nordic Noir box sets.
Broadchurch is that, only on television, small town where everyone knows everyone, then suddenly the tranquillity is shattered as a boys body is found on the beach. Rugged new guy, with a past, DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) is on hand to investigate. In place of the Sarah Lund jumpers David Tennant sports a gimmick beard that wants to be stubble or gimmick stubble that wants to be a beard, I couldn't figure out which. Anyway he is forced to work with DI Ellie Miller (Olivia Coleman) the local knows everyone police officer whose promotion Hardy took. Well you can cut the tension between them with a cotton bud. So the second they inform the dead boy's family is when we really go into The Killing overload. Cue loads of standing in doorways with hands on chests, mournful shaking of heads and pointless recriminations. The death attracts the attention of a reporter from that famous national newspaper The Daily Herald, yeah I get it every day as well, which adds a bit more Nordic Noir to this grim goulash. But there is something rotten in the state of Broadchurch, it abounds with shady characters. You get the feeling that no expense has been spared because a suspicious Argus Filch type character is played by the bloke who played him in the Harry Potter films and a mysterious Pauline Quirke lookalike is played by Pauline Quirke sadly a red herring wasn't played by a red herring.
Not enough actually happened in the opening episode to have that dramatic thumping Killing end music, but as the weeks go by perhaps we will get that as well. I'm already looking forward to series two of Broadchurch where Alec Hardy gets mixed up with shenanigans in the Danish Army.
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