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Marcella Backland, in her 30s, reboots her career in the Murder Squad of the Metropolitan Police after a 7 year maternity break, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.
It's a performance that teeters permanently on the brink of ridiculousness, but one that never quite topples over. I'm looking forward to seeing more of it over the next eight weeks.
Marcella is portrayed as both an excellent detective and a basket case in a way that doesn't add up (despite the past traumas that are introduced as explanations), and her blackouts feel like plot devices, there just to keep things mysterious.
Best of all is Mar-chella. We think we should empathise with the vulnerable, abandoned wife, and her slight frame and tearful, saucer eyes implore us to, but don't be too taken in.
When the protagonist is female, as she is in Netflix's binge-worthy crime noir Marcella, the drama at home can be nearly as intense as the murder mystery.