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Hugo Rifkind

Must every quality TV show begin with a young woman’s corpse?

20 March 2014

3:00 PM

20 March 2014

3:00 PM

It was Shetland that tipped me over the edge. Not the place, but the TV series. Although that’s set in the place. So both, really. It’s a crime drama, see, and people keep getting murdered. Roughly speaking, so far, there’s been a corpse every episode. Which by the end of the series will mean eight corpses.

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