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It's easy to dismiss Wire In The Blood as another off-the-shelf detective series. All the components are there, from the brilliant but socially inept main character Tony Hill to the police's inherent distrust of him, the internal rivalries within the unit he works with, the relationship between Hill and Detective Inspector Carol Jordan, the officer who calls him in and even the disturbing nature of the cases that he's asked to help out on.
It's a really pleasant surprise then to see that it's far more than the sum of its parts. Adapted from the novels by award-winning crime writer Val McDermid, the series expands and adapts their central ideas, creating a world which is as far from the traditional, slightly safe view of English crime fiction as it's possible to be. This is a world rooted in the 1980s, in the decade that saw the Miners' Strike scar relations with the police forever and the Yorkshire Ripper leave an indelible mark on the country.
It's this northern tone that's the first thing you notice about the series. Set in the fictional city of Bradfield, it marries the bleak, soul less grind of urban crime to a countryside that's as unforgiving as it is beautiful. The seven stories presented here see Hill and Jordan go everywhere from high rise flats to ruined abbeys, all convincingly placed within a unique part of the country.
This constantly shifting, uneasy background really sets the series apart from its competitors. It's thrown into sharp relief by Hill's constant patience and compassion for his patients, most notably a female serial killer who is desperate to remember where she buried her victims. Interestingly, the series also goes to great lengths to give Hill feet of clay. He's not infallible, he's not right all the time and at least one episode revolves around not only that but his complete inability to understand how people relate to one another. Hill is arrogant, compassionate, brutally honest and as damaged as he is fascinated by the people he's studying.
The cases themselves are uniformly strong, interesting problems.
For all Robson's strengths, he's almost outshone by Hermione Norris as DI Jordan. Jordan's a genuinely formidable presence in the series, Hill's intellectual equal but without the fascination that dogs him. She's relentless, constantly driving the investigations forward, constantly motivating or reasoning with Hill and her other officers. Refreshingly, Jordan is a character with no agenda apart from getting the job done and her gender never once comes into play. Like Hill though, she's damaged by what she sees and there's a beautifully handled moment where she finally cracks.
With these two performances at its centre, some great scripts and a unique location, Wire In The Blood is one of the best pieces of detective fiction in years. It's unremittingly bleak, often very funny and orders of magnitude more complex than most series of its type. Highly recommended.
Films include:
1. The Mermaids Singing
2. The Mermaids Singing
3. Shadows Rising: Part 1
4. Shadows Rising: Part 2
5. Justice Painted Blind: Part 1
6. Justice Painted Blind: Part 2
7. Still She Cries
8. The Darkness of Light
9. Right to Silence
10. Sharp Compassion
11. Redemption
12. Bad Seed
13. Nothing But the Night
14. Synchronicity
15. Time to Murder and Create
16. Torment
17. Hole in the Heart
18. Wounded Surgeon
19. The Colour of Amber
20. Nocebo
21. The Names of Angels
22. Anything You Can Do
23. SPECIAL-PRAYER TO THE BONE
24. Unnatural Vices: Part 1
25. Unnatural Vices: Part 2
26. Falls the Shadow, Part 1
27. Falls the Shadow, Part 2
28. From the Defeated, Part 1
29. From the Defeated, Part 2
30. The Dead Land, Part 1.
31. The Dead Land, Part 2
PRAYER TO THE BONE was released as a special and is not in the regular season release (60. I am including it here, though.
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