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Shetland · Season 1 · BBC One

Shetland Season 1

Shetland Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.5/10. 2 episodes on BBC One from 10 March 2013.

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BollyMeter7.5/10Rotten Tomatoes 87% (4 critics). Metacritic 70 (12 critics). Critics noted the landscape-as-character quality immediately but found the two-episode pilot format too compressed. Phil Harrison in Time Out praised the show's 'combination of big skies and claustrophobic parochial smallness.'

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Shetland launched in March 2013 as a two-episode serial adapted from Ann Cleeves' novels, with Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez. The Metacritic score of 70 (12 critics) reflected a generally positive but measured reception: critics were immediately struck by the quality of the location photography and the atmospheric specificity of the archipelago setting, while some found the opening two-episode format too compressed to fully establish the character world. Phil Harrison in Time Out identified the show's core virtue - the tension between the islands' vast skies and their social claustrophobia - that would sustain the series across a decade. Henshall's Perez was a quieter, more interior detective than the genre's dominant mode, and that understatement would prove a strength across the longer run.

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87%critics positive · n=4
  • “Wring considerable capital out of Shetland's combination of big skies and claustrophobic, parochial smallness.”
    Time Out