This is the first time I have watched Shetland since it changed its format from two part stories.
I never realized that the Shetland stories were based on the books by Ann Cleeves, the same writer of the Vera novels.
The first episode of this opening story starts with a smartly dressed young Nigerian man who seems distressed. Later some of his body parts wash up ashore and bits of him might had been dissolved in acid.
The dead man was identified as Daniel Ugara who came to the Shetland Isles looking for a female family member who might had been a victim of sex trafficking.
Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) initially suspects a fisherman who has fallen on hard times, who might now have been tempted by the drugs trade.
Henshall brings a weariness and vulnerability to Perez. The dead man has been a victim of a gruesome crime and it looks like some nasty people linked with organized crime might had been involved.
It was a well paced first episode. Having grown up in a small island, it is hard to swallow that so much crime is going on in a place like Shetlands and the police do not have a whiff of suspicion.
I never realized that the Shetland stories were based on the books by Ann Cleeves, the same writer of the Vera novels.
The first episode of this opening story starts with a smartly dressed young Nigerian man who seems distressed. Later some of his body parts wash up ashore and bits of him might had been dissolved in acid.
The dead man was identified as Daniel Ugara who came to the Shetland Isles looking for a female family member who might had been a victim of sex trafficking.
Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) initially suspects a fisherman who has fallen on hard times, who might now have been tempted by the drugs trade.
Henshall brings a weariness and vulnerability to Perez. The dead man has been a victim of a gruesome crime and it looks like some nasty people linked with organized crime might had been involved.
It was a well paced first episode. Having grown up in a small island, it is hard to swallow that so much crime is going on in a place like Shetlands and the police do not have a whiff of suspicion.