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Shetland
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Zara McDermott: Uncovering Rape Culture
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You could tell things were getting difficult because the waves crashed in an atmospheric sort of a way, and the clouds looked dark and moody. This was Shetland (BBC1) of course, and in the final episode of the latest series we finally discovered who killed the lawyer Alex Galbraith.
If you have been following the many twists and turns, you might have been a little disappointed. After all that, it was a domestic. Mrs Galbraith shot her husband because he was going to reveal his part in a young woman's death by drug overdose at a party 20 years ago, and in burying her body in secret.
The scandal would have harmed her career in local politics. It didn't help that Mr G might also have been having an affair with a nun.
Douglas Henshall is excellent as brooding, irascible Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Kurt Wallander. Both men have fathers who are suffering from dementia (it was Mr Perez senior who inadvertently gave his son a vital clue).
Douglas Henshall is excellent as brooding DI Jimmy Perez
Both men are inclined to stretch the rules: at one point, DI Perez took a suspect up to the moors, where he thought the body of Marie Ann Ross was hidden after her death. 'Where is she?' he barks.
'You're standing on her,' says the suspect.
And both men like staring out to sea when the going gets tough. Is there another
