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Shetland: Season 1 and Two [DVD]

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Eight puzzling murder cases keep good-natured Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall, Primeval) busy - and keep you guessing - in the breathtakingly beautiful Shetland Islands. Among the mysteries Perez is confronted with are a local recluse who looks like the obvious suspect in the murder of a teenage girl until another corpse and a secret hiding place reveal new clues; a journalist’s fatal car accident seems suspicious after Perez discovers the driver was researching plans for a controversial new gas pipeline; and a scientist’s mysterious death. As Perez and the viewer quickly come to realize, not all is what it seems in this close-knit island community. Based on the best-selling Shetland novels by author Ann Cleeves (Vera).

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.4 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1000513635
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 8 hours
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 27, 2018
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Various
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ BBC
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UA00EPQ
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 3
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    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 637 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Mystery Series with a Brooding Feeling - Like the Cold and Beautiful Land It Portrays
5 Stars
Excellent Mystery Series with a Brooding Feeling - Like the Cold and Beautiful Land It Portrays
Jimmy Perez (pronounced PEAR ehz) is a DCI out of Lerwick, the largest town on Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands. His wife, Fran, died of cancer, leaving him to raise Cassie, his teen-age stepdaughter, on his own. Or he was on his own, until Duncan, her real father, turns up to get reacquainted with the daughter he abandoned 10 years before. They are trying to make it as civilized as possible. As Duncan explains, “I’m her father. Jimmy’s her Dad.”In episode 3, a character notes that Perez isn’t a Shetland name. Perez replies, “They say they came over with a shipwreck from the Armada, and a Spanish sailor fell in love with a girl from Fair Isle.”Jimmy is assisted by Detective Constable Sandy Wilson and Detective Sergeant Alison “Tosh” MacIntosh. Tosh is an excellent example of not judging a book by its cover. Her eyebrows are permanently slanted as if she’s worried. Together with her plump cheeks and sloping shoulders, you could get the mistaken impression that there’s not much going on in her head.All of these mysteries have convoluted plotting with multiple story threads - never boring! And the islands are like a character. Gorgeous, green and gray and stark. Even at Midsummer, you have to wear a parka at night. I've attached a map of the Shetland Islands, showing Lerwick, the largest city (where DCI Perez is based). It doesn't show Fair Isle, unfortunately, because that little isle is way south of Mainland, half way to the Orkneys, So I added a photo of little Fair Isle itself. Known for its wool and traditional knitting patterns, it is only 3 miles square - which still makes it the 10th largest of the Shetland Islands.“Shetland” is produced by BBC Scotland. Season 1 first aired in March, 2013, consisting of the 2-part episode “Red Bones”. Season 2, with three 2-part mysteries, aired March/April 2014. Each episode is about 57 minutes without commercials. They started filming Season 3 in 2015. It will be one murder mystery told in 6 episodes.Most of the filming is done on mainland Scotland, with an occasional foray onto Mainland, Shetland. Even so, the scenery is breathtaking. It must be annoying, though, to live on one of the Shetlands, and see another place represent your own beautiful island.Episodes 1 & 2: “Red Bones” …On the Eastern island of Bressay, the elderly Mima Wilson muses over a yellowed photograph of 3 young fishermen standing in front of a boat. She hears a noise outside her isolated croft and heads out to check, calling “Who’s there? Is that you?”The next morning, young DC Sandy Wilson, Mima’s grandson, stops in to check on her, only to find her outside, dead from a shotgun blast. DCI Perez takes the 20-minute ferry from Lerwick to investigate. There are family antagonisms going back 70 years to bear on the case, not to mention an archeological dig on Mima’s land which just turned up a skull. How old is that skull?To make it worse, Perez has to investigate the murder while dealing with the tourist influx to celebrate the annual Up Helly Aa festival, always a time for people to overimbibe – or to get lost in the crowd.I've attached a photo from a real Up Helly Aa with Jarl Squad (Vikings) bearing lit torches through the night, culminating in burning a long-boat on the sea.Episodes 3 & 4: “Raven Black”…It’s Midsummer midnight, and Sally Henry, the teacher’s daughter, and Catherine Ross, local teen-with-an-attitude, are drinking at a beach bonfire. On the way home to their village of Ravenswick, Sally tells Catherine that her mother “does not like me when I’m with you. She does not like you.”They pass the croft of Magnus Bain, and Catherine insists on stopping for a visit. Magnus, a natural recluse, shy of contact, still not over his sister’s death 50 years before. He's a natural target. I’d write “Poor Magnus”, but he would not welcome that or even understand. He’ll get the worst of it after 17 year-old Catherine is found dead on the beach the next morning, strangled with her own scarf. She had people’s secrets, and it cost her.Episodes 5 & 6: “Blue Lightning”…Perez is from Fair Isle, and Cassie is visiting his folks on that small island. One of Fair Isle’s international claims to fame is its bird observatory and research center. It has three permanent employees, Ann and Frank Blake, and Anna’s assistant, Finlay Caulfield. Other students, researchers and birders come and go.Back in Lerwick, Perez is woken by a late night phone call from his Dad. Anna Blake has been killed in her laboratory and Jimmy goes home to solve a murder. As his father tells Jimmy, “There hasn’t been an unlawful killing in Fair Isle for 70 years and even that was caused by the Luftwaffe.”Episodes 7 & 8: “Dead Water”…A wedding is coming to the village of Skellwick. Jerry Markham, an old journalist friend of Jimmy and Fran’s, makes a surprise visit from London. And Storne Gas wants to build a new pipeline right across a fish farm. These threads come together in a complicated murder investigation that starts after Jerry’s sports car is pushed over a cliff. As Jerry’s grieving parents tell Jimmy: “He had set up this investigative website. We worried about him when he was in London. But not here.”In the DVD set for the combined Seasons 1 & 2, you get 454 minutes of atmospheric mysteries. They are presented in 16:9 anamorphic and stereo. English subtitles are available for all episodes. The DVD set has no bonus features.“Shetland” and the characters in it are taken from the mystery novels by Ann Cleeves. She’s written six of them, so far. Cleeves is also the author of the Vera Stanhope mystery series, which have been filmed by ITV as the murder mystery series “Vera”. I haven’t read any of her mysteries, yet, but now I’m going to have to, to see how well she describes the stark beauty of the Shetland Islands, if nothing else. Here's the latest "Vera" available on DVD/BluRay:Vera, Sest 5I love learning new trivia from a show. I had to re-watch “Shetland” with subtitles to catch the spelling of some of the old Gaelic words sprinkling the conversations. For example, Ceilidh, pronounced KAY lee, means a social gathering. Glaikit = foolish-looking. The Shetland Bus (episodes 1 & 2) was a very real clandestine special op during WWII. And, last but not least, the El Gran Grifón, flagship of the Spanish Armada, really was shipwrecked with 300 sailors on Shetland in 1588.A Very Recommended Mystery Series.Happy Reader
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