![]() ![]() The death of light-fingered Lawrence, money launderer to people-trafficking drug lords the Maguires, was episode one’s big shock. (For comparison, it’s been 10 months since the first UK lockdown and in that time the only achievement I can lay claim to is having individually named the pigeons that gather on my kitchen windowsill to beg for peanuts.) She’s spent just 10 months infiltrating a powerful Belfast crime family and has already had sex with most of them and a marriage proposal from one, who’s dead now. This is a new show, set in a new country, with a new premise: Marcella undercover.Ī gut-led detective with unfailing instincts and a regularly failing grasp of the law (more than once, she’s been both lead investigator and chief murder suspect), Marcella has been fast-tracked into undercover work and appears to be a natural. Forget everything you know about Marcella Backland’s kids, colleagues and lovers – where we’re going, you won’t need ‘em. Like an unhinged divorcee lobbing old belongings from the window of a moving car, the show rid itself of pretty much everything connected to its past and sped away cackling, off to a new start.Īfter a two-year wait, that new start is finally here (it streamed on Netflix in the US last summer so spoiler-averse Googlers beware). Warning: this Marcella review contains spoilers.Ī radical change of hairstyle is often an indication of a breakdown, which is the only honest way to describe the end of Marcella’s last season. ![]()
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