Marcella
From Friday 27 July at 9:15pm
Marcella is a new multi-strand crime drama from internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge). Following his global success with The Bridge, Marcella captures Rosenfeldt’s genius in creating truly compelling female characters. Set in contemporary London and starring Anna Friel, Marcella centres on the psychological struggles of a Metropolitan police officer at crisis point in her personal life, driven by rejection and intuition.
Marcella (Anna Friel), now in her late 30s, gave up her fast-tracked role as a detective at the Metropolitan Police’s Murder Squad to marry and devote her life to starting a family. After 12 years, and the abrupt end of her marriage to the man she thought was the love of her life, and isolated from her children at boarding school, Marcella returns to work - with her sense of self shattered.
She’s immediately assigned to an old case she first worked on in 2005. A spate of recent killings all carry the same hallmarks as those unsolved murders committed over a decade ago. Has the killer re-appeared, or is this a copycat murderer? How will Marcella cope with returning to duty when her own temperament is so fragile and vulnerable? Will throwing herself into her work provide the answers she’s seeking or lead her dangerously into territory she must avoid at all costs?
Told in Rosenfeldt’s unflinchingly clear Nordic style, the series leads the audience through an unpredictable narrative maze full of hooks and action, with suspicion falling on nearly every character right up until its final moments.
Also stars Australian actor Maeve Dermody.