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Karen Pirie - Season 1 (2022)

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Show title: Karen Pirie

IMDb score: 7,6 (13.817)

Episodes: 3

Playing time: 4 hour and 27 minutes

Developed by: Emer Kenny and Simon Heath

Stars: Lauren Lyle, Emer Kenny and Chris Jenks

Origin: United Kingdom

Releasedate: Sunday 25 September 2022

First aired on: ITV (Verenigd Koninkrijk)

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Karen Pirie plot

Karen is a young woman with a smooth talk and a sharp mind. After her promotion to Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit, she must reopen the investigation into an unsolved murder. A young barmaid had been stabbed to death in 1995 and the three students who found the body were originally suspected. Despite the police investigation, they were never charged at the time. As she conducts her investigation, she will soon realize that the original investigation was full of errors. Those discoveries will bring her into conflict with the same officers who originally worked on the case.

Episodes Season 1 (2022)

  1. Episode 1

    25 September 2022 (1 hour and 28 minutes)

  2. Episode 2

    2 October 2022 (1 hour and 29 minutes)

  3. Episode 3

    9 October 2022 (1 hour and 30 minutes)

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Actors and Actresses

Bel Richmond

Alex Gilbey Snr

DS Jimmy Lawson

PC Janice Hogg

Chief Superintendent Lawson

DI Barney MacLennan

Weird Mackie Jnr

Weird Mackie Snr

Grace Galloway

Alex Gilbey Jnr

Ziggy Malkiewicz Jnr

Colin Duff Snr

Reviews & comments

An excellent detective who is very well put together.

The three episodes of one and a half hours flew by.

The often cynical humor mixed with the detective work is very nice and does not dominate the series.

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9/10

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Suitehome

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Karen Pirie is based on the crime novels by Scottish author Val McDermid. McDermid, known for the stories about Dr. Tony Hill (the basis for the Wire In The Blood series), wrote six books about Karen Pirie. The producers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard turned the debut novel into a three-part series. Not much can go wrong with these recommendations, right?

Inspector Karen Pirie - excellently played by Lauren Lyle - is the no-nonsense and hands-on type. That's good because a 25-year-old cold case has to be solved. Against the grain of managers, men and media, Pirie tries to piece together the puzzle. What is immediately striking is the original approach of the otherwise conventional story in a typical Scottish setting, the photogenic St Andrews.

Pirie is young and fresh, has humor, is not flawed, has no demons from the past and is not a bitch. Just a nice colleague. And that is exactly the strength of Karen Pirie. Combined with some good plot twists, Karen Pirie rises above the average. A little too good for me, but with five McDermid books to go, this could well become a series that settles in the sub-top of British serial cinema.

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james_cameron

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Entertaining, exciting British detective series about a female inspector (Lauren Lyle) who is promoted to the Historic Cases Unit and has to reopen the investigation into an unsolved murder of a young barmaid. Nice characters, a plot that is well put together (based on a book by the Scottish writer Val McDermid) and cool humor make this a pleasant series. With three episodes of one and a half hours, this first series is also exactly long enough.

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